The figurative language is being used in this sample:
The plants were so thirsty that they screamed out for water.
What is personification?
100
A fourteen line poem comprised of three quatrains and a couplet.
What is a sonnet?
100
The name of the character that is working to overcome the conflict in a story.
What is the protagonist?
100
A word or phrase that renames a noun in a sentence. For example: Scott, the boy that stole my bike, is the neighborhood bully.
What is an appositive?
100
The strategy of supporting your answer using logic and examples from the text.
What is logos?
200
The figurative language is being used in the sample below:
When I started teaching gray sweatshirt over there, he could barely run a lap. Now, he's on the track team.
What is metonymy?
200
The term for a poem that has meter or rhythm.
What is fixed verse?
200
When the audience/reader knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
200
The action word in a sentence.
What is a verb?
200
The kind of characterization shown in the example below:
Rene's eyes were red and bloodshot. Her cheeks were stained from the tears she had shed all night. She could not bring herself to smile.
What is indirect characterization?
300
The figurative language is being used in the sample below:
The EOC is going to be a piece of cake!
What is idiom?
300
The term for a group of lines in a poem that functions somewhat like a paragraph in a story.
What is a stanza?
300
This is when the author gives you hints to predict what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
A word or phrase that tells why, when, why, how, or to what extent.
What is an adverb?
300
Making an assumption about something in the text based on the context clues and your own understanding of the world.
What is inferring?
400
The figurative language is being used in the sample below:
If my parents don't let me go to this party, I am literally going to set my house on fire.
What is hyperbole?
400
The repetition of a leading consonant.
What is alliteration?
400
This is when a word sounds like the thing that it is. Examples include "boom", "pop", and "crash".
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The thing that receives the action in a sentence.
What is the direct object?
400
This can be predicted based on the following text: The car drove at full speed toward the cliff with only 100 yards separating it from the edge.
What is the car will fly off the cliff?
500
The figurative language is being used in the sample below:
Darren! Darren! Wherefore art thou, Darren? Because prom is coming up and you STILL haven't asked me out!!!
What is allusion?
500
The person who is narrating the poem.
Who is the speaker?
500
This is a comparison of two things that uses "like" or "as"
What is simile?
500
A phrase containing a noun and verb that cannot stand on its own as a separate thought.
What is a dependent or subordinate clause?
500
The technique of supporting your argument by appealing to the emotions of the reader.