Figurative Language
The name for the use of the same beginning sound in words.
Hyperbole Metaphor Alliteration
Alliteration
The woman who wrote the poem Caged Bird.
Maya Angelou
The years of the Civil War.
1885-1902 1861-1865 1775-1781
1861-1865
The name for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The irrational number is usually shown as ~ 3.14.
Pi
The Greek God of the Sky and Weather
Zeus
The largest mammal in the world.
Elephant Whale Pygmy Shrew
Blue Whale
Extreme exaggeration
For example: I laughed so hard, I nearly died.
Hyperbole
The man who spent 27 years in a South African jail and became the President of South Africa in 1994.
Nelson Mandela
The United States President during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
If you add up the lengths around a polygon, you have found the:
Area Radius Perimeter
Perimeter
The Greek God of the Underworld.
Haephastus Poseidon Hades
Hades
Europe Australia Antarctica
Antarctica
Comparing two things, using the word like or as.
Simile
The man who won the Democratic New Hampshire primary.
Al Gore Bernie Sanders Stanley Kubrick
Bernie Sanders
Trail of Tears is an example of what figurative language:
Simile Personification Onomotapeia
Personification
Any line from the center of a circle to the edge of the circle is called the:
Arc Circumference Radius
Radius
The Greek God of the Sea.
Dionysus Zeus Poseidon
Poseidon
How many atoms of Hydrogen are in a molecule of water (H2O)?
0 5 2
Figure of speech suggesting that two different things are the same thing.
Example: I, too, am America.
Hyperbole Metaphor Personification
Metaphor
The Vice President of the United States
Mike Pence Mike Hammer Mike n' Ike
Mike Pence
The name of the period from 1866 - 1877 when the United States brought the southern states back into the Union.
Come Back Reconstruction Guilded Age
Reconstruction
If you multiply a rectangle's length times its height, you have found its:
Perimeter Circumference Area
Area
The Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War.
Aphrodite Athena Hera
Athena
Name the country with the most people in it.
Canada China Israel
China (1,386,000,000)
Language that gives human characteristics to a non-human thing.
The night slept, quiet.
Personification Simile Hyperbole
Personification
The man who was a part of the Harlem Rennaissance and wrote the poem I, Too.
Larry Hughes Thurgood Marshall Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
Name given to the about 1,500 mile march of Choctaw, Cherokee, Seminole, and other Indian nations from Georgia to Indian Territory.
Freedom Trail Trail of Tears The Treasure Trail
Trail of Tears
If you add the radius of a circle to itself, you get the:
Pi Circumference Diameter
Diameter
The father of Zeus, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon.
Kronos
How many planets are in the solar system?
6 8 9
8. Pluto stopped being a planet in 2006.