MINI- LESSONS
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Name that trait!
FIGURES OF SPEECH #2
100
Sentences from a story or novel that gives the reader a gigantic amount of information.
What is an irrelevant detail?
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
The academic vocabulary including specialized vocabulary related to a specific field of study.?
What is domain specific vocabulary?
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
The idea that is specific to what is happening in a story, passage or novel
What is the main idea?
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
The specifics of a story that lets the reader know what is important in the story, passage or novel.
What are relevant details?
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
A sentence that states the main thought of a paragraph and is usually placed at or near the beginning.
What is a topic sentence?
500
Phrases that have nonhuman things taking on human characteristics.
What is personification?
500
the goal or without bias
What is objective?
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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