Figurative Language
The following is an example of which type of figurative language? The Alabama heat was like a heavy blanket.
What is a simile?
Which type of verbal is used in the following sentence?
Playing with matches got Byron in big trouble with Momma.
What is a gerund phrase?
What type of punctuation is used to combine words in the following sentence?
You would use this mark to create the name of the World-Famous Watson Pet Hospital.
What is a hyphen?
At the start of the book, Byron is a bully; by the end, he is a protector. This makes him this type of character.
What is dynamic?
If you are studying Anthropology, you are studying this, which is the meaning of the root anthro.
What is humankind or humanity?
The following is an example of which type of figurative language?
The "Brown Bomber" struggled to climb a hill.
What is personification?
Which type of verbal is used in the following sentence?
Byron wanted to scare Kenny with stories about the Wool Pooh.
What is an infinitive phrase?
What type of punctuation shows hesitation in the following sentence?
"Kenny looked into the water and saw... the Wool Pooh."
What are Ellipses?
Buphead is a bad influence at the beginning and end of the story. Thus he is which type of character?
What is a static?
This root means "to walk" or "to move."
What is amble?
The following is an example of which type of figurative language?
Kenny says, "It was a zillion degrees below zero" when describing the Flint winter.
What is hyperbole?
Which type of verbal is used in the following sentence?
Terrified by the bombing, Kenny hid behind the sofa.
What is a Participle (or Participial Phrase)?
What type of punctuation is used to add dramatic breaks in the following sentence?
"Byron was a juvenile delinquent—or so everyone thought—until the family went to Birmingham."
What is a dash?
Both Kenny Watson and Ponyboy Curtis serve this role in their respective books.
What is the narrator (or protagonist)?
The roots duc or dus, found in words like conduct or produce, mean to do this.
What is "to lead"?
The following is an example of which type of figurative language?
After Byron got his hair treatment, his siblings thought his new look was to dye for.
What is a pun?
Which type of phrase is used in the following sentence?
The Brown Bomber, a 1948 Plymouth, was Dad’s pride and joy.
What is an appositive phrase?
What type of punctuation is used to contain the author's name and line number when citing evidence from a text?
What are parenthesis?
This "symbol" in the Watsons represents the trauma nearly drowning at Collier's Landing and the trauma of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
What is the Wool Pooh?
This prefix means "within" or "inside."
What is "intra"?
The following is an example of which type of figurative language?
Byron uses this type of language when he asks Kenny to "give him some skin" or tells him to "chill out."
What is idiom (or idiomatic expression)?
Which type of phrase is used in the following sentence?
During every stop, Momma makes sure everyone has enough to eat.
What is a prepositional phrase?
This mark is used specifically to join two words like "mother-in-law" or "ice-cold."
What is a hyphen?
Which type of irony is the following?
Momma, who hates the cold, lives in Flint, Michigan.
What is situational irony?
In the scientific world, this suffix denotes a specific instrument or device used for a task.
What is "tron"?