Parallel Structure
Parallel Structure or NOT Parallel Structure?
To take the 5th Amendment is refusing to incriminate yourself.
What is NOT Parallell Structure?
What word needs to be capitalized that is not?
Maria plans on joining Future Business leaders of America next year.
What is leaders?
What is the meaning of the allusion and where does the allusion come from in the following sentence?
When Wanda claimed she had loaded the dishwasher before turning on Dancing with the Stars, her mother replied, "Your nose is growing!"
What is 'she was lying'? (An allusion to Pinocchio)
'Her eyes were like sparkling diamonds' is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
'The sobbing violin brought me to tears' is this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
Parallel Structure or NOT Parallel Structure?
Marrying Mayor Smith meant leaving her family and traveling all over the world.
What is Parallel Structure?
What word should NOT be capitalized?
Jory will join the Clay County High School Soccer team this fall.
What is soccer?
What does the personification in this text suggest?
The lighthouse horn moaned, and the sound traveled through the thick fog, reaching the sailors who were enveloped in the grayness.
What is 'the horn was loud and helped the sailors'?
The darkness was a blanket that both smothered and comforted is this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor OR personification?
The root mal means this, as in the word malnutrition.
What bad or lacking?
Parallel Structure or NOT Parallel Structure?
Tying a slip knot is harder than to tie a square knot.
What is NOT Parallel Structure?
Where should a comma be inserted in the sentence?
The teacher recommended reading each question carefully, eliminating wrong answers and clearly marking the correct answer.
What is 'after answers'?
What does the hyperbole in this text suggest?
The last time Alvin cleaned his room, dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth.
What is 'it has been a long time since he cleaned his room'?
Describing something in great detail such as 'I peered into the dark, thick fog, listening with ears to the soft sounds of scampering in the night' is this type of figurative language.
What is imagery?
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What is your should be you're?
What word or phrase needs to be changed to make this parallel structure?
A big car is not necessarily better than one that is small.
What is change 'one that is small' TO 'a small car'?
What words should be capitalized in the following:
future farmers of america
What is future, farmers, america?
What is the idiom and its meaning in this sentence?
I only drive this way once in a blue moon.
What is 'once in a blue moon' and it means 'only once in a while'.
'I felt that it would take a million years to get through college, then medical school' is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
Choose the correct analogy.
Twirling : dizziness:: virus : _________
a) physician
b) influenza
c) bacteria
What is influenza?
What word or phrase needs to be changed to make this parallel structure?
Hearing her sing in person was ten times better than if you heard her on the radio.
What is change 'if you heard her' to 'hearing her'?
What should be changed in the following sentence for correct punctuation?
Cameron visited his grandpa, whom—he adores, after school yesterday.
What is take away the dash?
What is the idiom and its meaning in the sentence?
When you eat out with friends, do you go Dutch?
What is 'go dutch' and it means 'to split the bill equally'.
'There was such a joyful sadness in her beautiful face' is this type of figurative language.
What is an oxymoron?
Ashton Bank: Protecting your money for over 100 years is this type of RHETORICAL DEVICE.
What is ethos or appeal to reputation?