Vocabulary
Figurative Language Terms
Questions from the story
Figurative Language from the story
More Terms
100
Having to do with finances
What is fiscal?
100
A comparison of different things using like or as?
What is simile?
100
Mrs. Flowers says that words can only be infused with the shades of deeper meaning by...
What is the human voice?
100
Opening the front doors was pulling the ribbon off the gift.
What is metaphor?
100
a feeling of delight
What is enchantment?
200
Not able or willing to accept other people's beliefs and opinions
What is intolerant?
200
Giving human qualities to non-human objects
What is personification?
200
To give a foreshadow of future events in the story, Maya Angelou tells the reader that Mrs. Flowers threw her a ...
What is lifeline?
200
I met the lady who threw me my first lifeline.
What is foreshadowing?
200
An exaggeration to express strong feeling
What is hyperbole?
300
Convincing; compelling
What is valid?
300
Comparison of two different things not using like or as
What is metaphor?
300
Why Mrs. Flowers said language is important
What is it separates humans from animals?
300
She shared a cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
What is allusion?
300
An expression with less strength than expected
What is understatement?
400
Never stopping; continual
What is ceaseless?
400
A reference to a character, mythology, history, music, etc. in a story
What is allusion?
400
Mrs. Flowers advises Marguerite to be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of ...
What is illiteracy?
400
For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible.
What is simile?
400
4 questions that adverbs answer
What is where, when, how, and to what extent?
500
kind; gentle
What is benign?
500
An author's clue to something that will happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
500
Marquerite's problem in school
What is the teachers cannot get her to talk in school?
500
Browned photographs leered or threatened from the walls and the white, freshly done curtains pushed against themselves and against the wind.
What is personification?
500
3 kinds of words does an adverb modify
What are verb, adjective, adverb?
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