Figurative Language
The student is as smart as a computer
What is Simile?
This word names a person, place or thing.
What is a Noun?
"So many teenagers think that seniors are just old people that don't know anything about computers."
What is Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech Tricks?
Describes the type of narration used in a story. First or Third person.
What is Point of View?
Possession of knowledge or experience: insight
What is wisdom?
I've told you a million times to turn in your homework.
What is Hyperbole?
This word is used to join words and sentences.
What is a Conjunction?
"Languages tend to become endangered when a dominant culture swallows up a smaller culture"
What is the Case of Disappearing Words?
The sequence of events that make up a story and center of conflict that characters encounter.
What is Plot?
Feeling anger and annoyance
What is frustrated?
The classroom is a zoo on the last day of school.
What is Metaphor?
This word describes a noun.
What is an Adjective?
"A few months later Old Chong and my mother conspire to have me play in a talent show..."
What is Two Kinds?
The general message expressed in a work of non fiction.
What is Central Idea?
Act of watching over someone.
What is supervision?
Silly students sang songs in the summer.
What is Alliteration?
This word describes a verb.
What is an Adverb?
"My grandmother took my hands. Sister, there is nothing to be scared of. She is your mother, that's all"
What is Mom & Me & Mom?
A message or insight about life that the author expresses in the text.
What is Theme?
People who study how language works?
What are lingists?
It's raining cats and dogs.
What is an Idiom?
This word names a position or location?
What is a preposition?
“One step at a time… one day at a time… just this one step… this one day.”
What is A Long Walk to Water?
The tones the author uses when telling the story.
What is Voice?
People from whom one is descended; forefathers.
What are ancestors?