Figurative Language
Identify the type of Figurative Language.
The sleeping baby was as happy as a clam.
What is a simile?
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Identify the type of risk.
Charlie went skydiving for his 18th birthday.
What is physical risk?
What should the last sentence of your intro paragraph include?
What is a claim/thesis statement?
Which of these is a synonym for clean?
a. Messy
b. Tidy
c. soiled
d. greasy
What is tidy?
Identify the type of Figurative Language.
She woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
What is an idiom?
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
The Road Not Taken
Identify the type of risk.
John asked Sally if she would be his girlfriend.
What is emotional risk?
What type of words connect all parts of your essay?
What are transition words?
What is an antonym for bond?
a. disconnected
b. friendship
c. clever
d. sibling
What is disconnected?
Identify the type of Figurative Language.
The trees whistled as the wind breezed through its leaves.
What is personification?
I just know that on Monday my friends, and my enemies, in the barrio will have a lot of senile-grandmother jokes to tell in front of me.
Abuela Invents the Zero
Identify the type of risk.
Isaac Newton suggested to the public his ideology and theory of gravity in relation to our planet.
What is intellectual risk?
What font and size should your essay be in?
What is Times New Roman 12 pt. font?
What is a synonym for hot?
a. icy
b. wet
c. toasty
d. frozen
What is toasty?
Identify the type of Figurative Language.
Are you sure you want to do that?
What is a rhetorical question?
In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color.
The House on Mango Street
Identify the type of risk
We decided to continue driving through the night despite the severe thunderstorms and flood warnings.
What is environmental/natural risk?
What comes before your explanations?
What is evidence?
What is a synonym for stressed?
a. excited
b. anxious
c. sleepy
d. exhilarated
What is anxious?
Identify the type of Figurative Language.
He was a complete bear! He yelled at us all class period long.
What is a metaphor?
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
The Outsiders
Identify the type of risk.
She presented her photography at a real exhibit for the first time.
What is artistic risk?
What does the last sentence of your conclusion paragraph include?
What is new insight?
Which word(s) are another way to say fat?
a. obese
b. healthy
c. bloated
d. slim
What is obese and bloated?