Figurative Language
Genre Studies
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100
In the following sentence, what the phrase "beating around the bush" means: Stop beating around the bush and just answer the question
What is not answering directly
100
True story about the life of another person - not the author
What is biography?
100
Correct spelling of nabors
What is n e i g h b o r s?
100
Word that means the same or about the same as another word
What is a synonym?
100
Type of word that is the opposite of a given word
What is an antonym?
200
The meaning of "to eat my words"
What is to apologize?
200
Imaginative writing that shows feeling, may rhyme, and has specific rhythm
What is poetry?
200
correct spelling of guvernment
What is g o v e r n m e n t?
200
irregular pieces of roc that move through space
What is asteroids?
200
the medium sized star that is the basis of the solar system and sustains life on Earth as the source of heat and light
What is our sun?
300
A figurative language device that uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison between two unlike objects
What is a simile?
300
Genre set in the past, may contain historical characters or events, along with fictional characters and events
What is historical fiction?
300
correct spelling of foren
What is f o r e i g n
300
summary of an experiment based on data related to a hypothesis
What is conclusion?
300
heat transfer in liquids and gases as molecules circulate in currents
What is convection?
400
Comparison saying one thing IS another: The sun was a giant lollipop beaming in the sky.
What is a metaphor?
400
Literature that mirrors real life
What is real life fiction?
400
correct spelling of nowlege
What is k n o w l e d g e
400
heat transfer through space in the form of waves
What is radiation?
400
microscopic, single-celled organisms that exist around you and inside you
What is bacteria?
500
Language device used in the following sentence: Suddenly Sarah screamed shrilly since Severus snapped, "S I L E N C E!!!"
What is alliteration?
500
Tells about actual happenings, could give information, often includes charts, graphs, or photographs
What is expository text?
500
correct spelling of apreshiated
What is a p p r e c i a t e d?
500
when light goes from one medium to another medium, and is bent
What is refraction?
500
how high or low a musical note sounds
What is pitch?
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