Figurative Language
Define figurative language...
The term that describes specialized language used by professionals, like doctors describing cancer cells in the book...
What is jargon?
The author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks...
Who is Rebecca Skloot?
What is to represent a pause in a sentence or set apart non-essential information?
The year Columbia High School opened...
What is 2006?
Identify the figurative language that is used in this passage...
“The cells multiplied like a wildfire, spreading faster than anyone could control.”
What is a simile?
Identify the diction element in this passage: “I ain’t never seen nothin’ like it before, ma’am.”
What is dialect?
The hospital Henrietta was treated at...
What is Johns Hopkins Hospital?
Where should we put em dashes?
Henrietta was treated at Johns Hopkins one of the only hospitals that accepted Black patients at the time.
Henrietta was treated at Johns Hopkins—one of the only hospitals that accepted Black patients at the time.
The name of the Grinch’s dog...
What is Max?
Identify the figurative language used in the passage...
Henrietta’s body became a battleground, overtaken by a war she didn’t know she was fighting
What is metaphor?
Identify the diction element and effect in: “The tumor was monstrous, devouring everything in its path.”
What is connotation?
The difference between Henrietta's cells and regular cells...
What is they quickly proliferated outside of the body?
Where should we put em dashes?
George Gey the scientist who studied Henrietta’s cells was shocked by how quickly they grew.
George Gey—the scientist who studied Henrietta’s cells—was shocked by how quickly they grew.
The name of Mulan's dragon companion...
What is Mushu?
Identify the figurative language element...
“The cells told stories no one stopped to listen to, speaking in data while silencing the woman behind them.”
What is personification?
Identify the diction element in the passage...
“The ward echoed with voices, footsteps, and the clatter of carts.”
What is cacophonous?
The term used for doctor's hiding essential medical information from their patients in the 1950s...
What is "benevolent deception"?
Where should em dashes go?
Henrietta Lacks a woman whose cells changed modern medicine died without knowing her impact.
Henrietta Lacks—a woman whose cells changed modern medicine—died without knowing her impact.
Identify the figurative language used...
“A silent legacy lived on in laboratories worldwide.”
What is oxymoron?
What tone does the author have in this passage?
“Doctors did not ask Henrietta for consent before taking her cells, and her family remained unaware for decades.”
A) Humorous
B) Critical
C) Sarcastic
D) Angry
What is critical?
What is it shows that Henrietta’s cells were taken and used to advance science without her knowledge, while her family remained unaware and uninformed?
Where should we put em dashes?
Henrietta’s cells made countless scientific breakthroughs even though her family struggled for decades to understand what had happened.
Henrietta’s cells made countless scientific breakthroughs—even though her family struggled for decades to understand what had happened.
Name all 9 of Santa's reindeer...
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph