Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
Types of Poetry
Literature
Hodge Podge
100
This type of figurative language represents a sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
This is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
This type of poetry is usually humorous, and is written to amuse or entertain.
What is a limerick?
100
The acronym SSRW stands for this.
What is Silent Sustained Reading and Writing.
100
This is the most exciting part of any story.
What is the climax?
200
This figure of speech makes a direct comparison between two things without using the words LIKE or AS.
What is a metaphor?
200
This part of speech is an action, occurrence, or state of being.
What is a verb?
200
This type of poetry tells a story.
What is an Epic?
200
The name of the nonsense creature in the poem by Lewis Carroll.
What is Jabberwocky?
200
This is the lesson, or moral, the reader gains from a story.
What is message?
300
This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to animals or objects.
What is personification?
300
This part of speech takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
300
This type of poetry is the most popular form of Japanese poetry.
What are haiku?
300
The model topic Mrs. Peterson studied during the research unit.
What are GMOS (Genetically Modified Foods)?
300
This is the feeling, or emotion of a story.
What is mood?
400
This type of figurative language is an intentional (and extreme) exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
400
This part of speech modifies a verb.
What is an adverb?
400
This type of poem always has exactly 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
400
A picture book about a father and daughter bonding after the father returns from war.
What is Crow Call?
400
The author's reason for writing a story is also called this.
What is author's purpose?
500
This is the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
500
This part of speech links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. "Under" is an example.
What is a preposition?
500
This is a lyrical poem written in quatrains.
What is a ballad?
500
This author wrote Tiger Rising.
Who is Kate DiCamillo?
500
This is a note at the bottom of a page, marked with a number, that gives more information about a word, date, or event.
What is a footnote?
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