Devices
Examples
Mixed Bag
Mixed Bag 2
Teacher Trivia
100
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
100
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
100
One or more lines of poetry and is similar to a paragraph in other types of writing.
A stanza
100
Who did Ms. Brophy write her freewrite on?
Double Jeopardy- What is her freewrite subject's first name?
Her Mom, Gloria.
200
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
200
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
200
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
200
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
200
What does Ms. Coyne's Husband do for work?
He works for the MBTA. (Bus driver)
300
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
300
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
300
What a poem is about: It can be a person, place, or thing.
What is the subject (will also accept topic)
300
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor
300
Ms. Petrillo Studied in which foreign country?
A. United Kingdom
B. Laos
C. China
D. Belgium
D. Belgium
400
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
400
Identify the tone of the passage below:
I walked back to the stairs, trembling and covered with sweat. I rehearsed the words I was going to say one more time.
Nervous/ Anxious
400
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
How does figurative language make writing better for the reader?
Figurative language can appeal to the senses, makes writing more entertaining (funnier).
400
Ms Petrillo made a guest appearance on which kind of show when she lived in China?
A. Game Show
B. Soap Opera
C. Singing Competition
D. Morning Talk Show
B. Soap Opera
500
How the author feels about a text. You can identify it by looking at actions, descriptions, and colors.
What is Tone?
500
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
500
What is the term for the voice of the poem, not necessarily the author.
The Speaker.
500
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
500
What is Ms. Coyne's favorite video game?
Skyrim