Which of the following does not use figurative language?
blizzard blue,
atomic tangerine,
jungle green,
bright purple
What is bright purple?
100
A book containing the synonyms of words.
What is thesaurus?
100
Two successive lines of verse rhyming and of the same length.
What is a couplet?
100
A story that includes real people and events.
What is nonfiction?
200
A story in which the elements are extremely exaggerated.
Ex: Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill
What is a tall tale?
200
A comparison using like or as. It usually compares two dissimilar objects.
Ex: His feet were as big as boats
What is a simile?
200
A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with their meanings and pronuncitations. This book also tells you the origin of the words, how many syllables it has, and what part of speech it is.
What is a dictionary?
200
A five-line poem made up of one couplet and one triplet. This type of poem is usually funny, and lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme. While lines 3 and 4 also rhyme.
What is a limerick?
200
A written account of a person's life told by another person.
What is a biography?
300
A written account of a person's life, which is written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
300
The repetition of the same consonant sounds or of different vowel sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables.
Ex: My big brother bought a baseball.
What is alliteration?
300
A book of maps.
What is an atlas?
300
A structured poem of fourteen lines.
What is a sonnet?
300
A story that has imaginary events and people but is based around a real event in history.
What is historical fiction?
400
A story that features supernatural or magical elements.
What is fantasy?
400
A _________ states that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but it DOES NOT use like or as to make the comparison.
Ex: The giants steps were thunderous.
What is a metaphor?
400
A series of reference books containing brief articles on a wide range of subjects and people.
What is an encyclopedia.
400
A poem that has no pattern until the poet creates it. It does not have a set number of lines or a set rhyme scheme or meter.
What is free verse?
400
A story that has imaginary events and people but is based around science.
What is scientific fiction?
500
A story with animals as characters that teaches a moral (lesson)?
Example: The Tortoise and the Hare
What is a fable?
500
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.
What is a hyperbole?
500
An annual publication in calendar form with weather forecasts, astronomical data, tide tables, and other information.
What is an almanac?
500
The use of language to create vivid pictures in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
500
A story that has imaginary events and people, but it is something that could really happen.