MINI- LESSONS
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Name that trait!
Figurative Language
100
Words that sound alike
What are homophones
100
Comparing two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
tool for television or isolated
What is a remote?
100
The people, animals or objects a story centers around
What are the characters?
100
It was a piece of cake.
What is an idiom?
200
Words that are opposites.
What are antonyms
200
Comparing two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
a gift or today
What is a present?
200
The location of the story/play
What is the setting?
200
Bud walked over to the woodpile as cool as a cucumber.
What is a simile?
300
Words that look the same, but they have different meanings and different pronunciations (sometimes)
What are homographs?
300
Words in a phrase that do not mean exactly what the phrase says.
What is an idiom?
300
very small or 60 seconds
What is a minute?
300
The voice that tells the story. Sometimes a character in the story
What is a narrator?
300
Miss Thomas's voice was the sun bursting through the clouds.
What is a metaphor?
400

Two words that mean the same thing.

What are synonyms?

400
Phrases of exaggeration.
What are hyperboles?
400
in the alphabet or a mailed note
What is a letter?
400
A summary of the story or chain of events
What is the plot?
400
I've told you a million times to do your homework.
What is a hyperbole?
500
The moral/lesson of a story.
What is the theme?
500
Phrases that have nonhuman things taking on human characteristics.
What is personification?
500

a drink or a painful strike

What is punch?

500
Helps you understand the meaning of the word without a definition
What are context clues?
500
Bang! Crash! Boom!
What is Onomatopoeia?
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