Figurative Language
Writing
Vocabulary
Random
Toss Up!
100
"Her stare was as cold as ice" is an example of?
What is a simile?
100
This method uses an introductory sentence, three details and a conclusion.
What is the Hamburger Method?
100
If you tell a lie, you are also doing this- a Unit 3 vocabulary word.
What is bluffing?
100
We used this graphic organizer to compare and contrast the Three Little Pigs.
What is a Venn Diagram?
100
The college Mr. Lawless attended
What is Ohio State?
200
Comic books feature this type of figurative language most often
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A story about a true life event that has happened to you.
What is a personal narrative?
200
This Unit 2 word means to be clever.
What is shrewd?
200
If you put events in the order that they occur, you are practicing this strategy.
What is sequencing?
200
In this point of view, the reader is aware of what all characters are thinking and feeling. It uses words like "they" "he" "she"
What is third person omniscient?
300
A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as. You would say that something is something else instead of being "like" something else
What is a metaphor?
300
Words that are used to move from one topic to the next in writing.
What are transition words?
300
If you support your decisions or prove your reasoning you are exhibiting this Unit 2 vocabulary word.
What is justify?
300
Name all of the points from A-E of narrative plot, and describe what happens at each point.
A- Exposition- the beginning of the story B- Rising Action- story picks up, problems begin to emerge C- Climax- Big problem occurs, most entertaining part of the book D- Falling Action- problems begin to be solved, everything calms down E- Resolution- Curtains close, end of the story, all problems are solved.
300
The breed of dog that Mr. Signet has?
What is a chocolate lab?
400
Alliteration is
What is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of three consecutive words?
400
Why writers write
What is PIE (persuade, inform, entertain)
400
This word refers to the group of people you are writing to
What is audience?
400
How does audience influence purpose? Give an example.
The audience we write to determines what we write about and how we write. If we write to a friend, we use different language than if we write to a teacher or parent.
400
In the word biography- what is the root word?
What is bio?
500
Raining cats and dogs is an example of this type of figurative language that we did not discuss in class. It has a different meaning than the literal meaning of the phrase.
What is an idiom?
500
An advertisement for McDonald's falls under this style of writing.
What is persuasive?
500
If you spend your days living alone, some might say that you are this Unit 1 word.
What is solitary?
500
A lesson that the story teaches us.
What is theme?
500
What is the present perfect tense of the following statement? "I walk to school"
What is "I have walked to school"?
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