Figurative Language
I'm as happy as a clam.
What is a simile?
A group of lines within a poem.
What is a stanza?
Raining cats and dogs
Raining really hard
Who are what the story is about.
What are characters?
How far apart should you stand at school?
6 feet
Pop! Boom! Crack! Ring!
What is an onomatopoeia?
Where each line of a text ends in a poem.
What is a line break?
This test was "a piece of cake."
The test was easy.
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting of the story?
Fiction
What is a made up story in the author's miind?
An expression that means something different from the meaning of its individual words.
What is an idiom?
Lines or words that are repeated to stress importance.
What is repetition?
The girl told her friend to 'break a leg' before her performance on stage.
It means good luck, do a good job!
The events of what happened in the story ( beginning, middle, end).
What is the plot?
What is the name of your school?
What is Powder Mill?
A comparison of two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Words with the same ending sounds at the end of lines or stanzas.
What are rhyming words?
The girl stayed home from school because she was feeling 'under the weather.'
She wasn't feeling well, she was sick.
The ending of the story when the problem is solved.
What is the resolution/conclusion?
What season are we in?
What is fall?
Sally sent seashells to the seashore.
What is an alliteration?
The cool, dense fog creeped along the ground.
What is imagery ( or personification)?
Sheldon heard from his sister that his mom was planning a surprise party for him. When he asked his mom about it, she said, " Who let the cat out of the bag?"
She told him something that was a secret.
The big message or lesson in the story.
What is the theme of the story?
Who is Judy Moody's brother?
Who is Stink?