Literary Devices
Book Genres
Language
General
Cross Curriculum
100
The water well was dry as a bone.
What is a SIMILE
100
My Life: The Spoken Song, Ake, The Years of Childhood, and, The Man Died: Prison Notes
What is AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
100
a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language
What is SYNONYM
100
Football is still the favorite sport among Americans. Even though this sport may have lost some of its popularity, it is still the best sport to play and watch.
What is AUTHOR'S VIEWPOINT?
100
1, 5, 9, 13,
What is SEQUENCE?
200
The butterfly was a beautiful painting of color.
What is a METAPHOR
200
Lord of the Rings, A Dance with Dragons, A Game of Thrones, and The Hobbit
What is FANTASY?
200
a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning
What is HOMONYM?
200
In the book The Three Little Pigs, Piggy 1 and Piggy 2 learn that hard work and patience pays off in the end.
What is THEME?
200
Write a short response between temperature and kinetic energy?
What is EXPLAIN?
300
I forgot my flip phone at home.
What is ALLITERATION
300
The Secret of the Old Clock, The Da Vinci Code, and The Lost Symbol
What is MYSTERY?
300
to add something at the end of a word, sentence, comment, or piece of writing
What is SUFFIX?
300
Fire ants are painful and destructive pests. They earned their name because of their venom. The insect uses a wasp-like stinger to inject the venom, which causes a painful burning sensation that itches. The first sentence is this.....
What is MAIN IDEA?
300
Identical twins look alike but if you get to know their personality traits, speech patterns, likes, and dislikes you can tell them apart.
What is DIFFERENTIATE?
400
“As I Walked One Evening”, But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.
What is HYPERBOLE
400
War of the Worlds, Uglies, The Hunger Games, and Divergent
What is SCIENCE FICTION?
400
a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word
What is ADJECTIVE?
400
The baby was asleep upstairs in his bed. Suddenly, I heard a loud, "THUMP!" and he began crying hysterically. I ran upstairs. I ran upstairs because.......
What is INFERENCE?
400
The 1st Amendment says that American's have the right to freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly.
What is PARAPHRASE?
500
Sally had a smile that rivaled that of Mona Lisa and when she peered at Scott his heart sank the depth of the Titantic at the ocean's floor.
What is ALLUSION
500
Pretty Little Liars, Hate List, The Test, and Misbehaving
What is DRAMA?
500
a word that declares an action in an extremely descriptive way that it brings life to the sentence.
What is VIVID VERB?
500
Jonas frowned. “The whole world?” he asked. “I don’t understand. Do you mean not just us? Not just the community? Do you mean Elsewhere, too?”
What is EXCERPT?
500
an expert witness says that the finger prints they compared from a criminal match those found at a murder scene
What is ANALYZE?
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