Figurative Language
Her eyes were stars
Metaphor
Main idea
Reasons for the civil war
slavery!
this caused the dustbowl
Over farming, erosion, drought
The Hero of the story
Odysseus
Im as happy as a puppy
Simile
The central message of a story, what it is about
The Theme
The US president that said slavery is illegal now
Abraham Lincoln
The biggest storm in the dust bowl
Black sunday
How many years was the journey of our hero?
10
The meal he cooked could feed an army!
Hyperbole
When two words have the same or similar definitions but are different words these words are called?
Synonyms
Without this state, the battle of Gettysburg could have been lost
Minnesota!
The dust bowl happened in these states primarily
Oklahoma, kansas, texas
The type of fruit that made sailors sleepy
Lotus
Still waters shivering in the wind
Personification
A word that has an opposite meaning of another word.
Antonym
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War
Gettysburg
The dust bowl happened in this decade
the 1930s
The name of Odysseus' wife
Penelope
Alone along a lonesome lake
Alliteration
The attitude or feels an author conveys
the tone
What year did the Civil War begin?
1861
The dust bowl ended because...
RAIN
The name of Odysseus' son
Telemachus