Figurative Language
Text Features/Sentence Structure
Point of view and definitions
Random topic
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What is this Simile comparing? "The memory was like a knife cutting into him,"(Paulsen 29).
A memory and a knife cutting through him
100
This is an example of a text feature
What is a book cover?
100
According to the excerpt what point of view is this? "Brian Robeson started out the window of the small plane,"(Paulsen 1)
3rd Person (limited)
100
Is this imagery or allusion? "Sharp-pointed in front, back from the head in a streamlined bullet shape to the fat body,"(Paulsen 132).
Imagery
200
From this excerpt, what kind of figurative language is this? "It was like turning on a television," (Paulsen 133).
Simile
200
Which is better sentence structure?
Option 1: There was a lake in front of the plane.
Option 2:"Not quite in front but slightly to the right he saw a lake, L shaped, with rounded corners...(Paulsen 26)
Option 2
200
An abrupt rough or violent movement
What is a jolt?
200
What is Paulsen describing? "It had a dark yellow yolk and not so much white as he thought there would be," (Paulsen 95)
An egg
300
What is the imagery describing in the excerpt? "Then a wild crashing sound, ripping of metal, and the plane rolled to the right and blew through the trees,"(Paulsen 27).
A plane crashing
300
Which has WORSE sentence structure?
Option 1:"His whole abdomen was torn with great rolling jolts of pain, pain that doubled him in the darkness of the little shelter, put him over and face down in the sand to moan over and over again,"(Paulsen 63)
Option 2:His stomach hurted from the pain that came and went.
Option 3: His belly was in a lot of pain.
Option 3
300
to reduce to fine particles
What is to pulverize?
300
Which has better sentence structure?
Option 1:"Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below,"(Paulsen 1).
Option 2: He looked down.
Option 3: Brian Robeson stared out the Clear window with a red shirt while at the cockpit of a small plane, watching different trees of the northern wilderness go by.
Option 4: Brian looked out the plane and saw the trees below.
Option 3
400
What is this figurative language? "He was better now but impatience still ground at him a bit,"(Paulsen 157).
Personification
400
The back of the book that teases what the story will be about
What is a book description/back cover copy/blurb?
400
Water, air, or smoke moving in a circular way
What is an eddie?
400
A ray of light changing direction when at an angle.
What is refracting?
500
Is the excerpt personification or a metaphor? "His whole abdomen was torn with great rolling jolts of pain that doubled him in the darkness of the little shelter, put him over and face down in the sand to moan again and again,"(Paulsen 63).
Trick question, none of them!
500
The events that happen after the story ends
What is an Epilogue?
500
European early modern man
What is a Cro-Magnon?
500
Liquid in a container moving with an irregular sound
What is sloshing?