Literary Devices xoxo
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MCAS
100
This is the definition for hyperbole.
What is when a writer uses extreme exaggeration, often for humor.
100
This is the defintion of personification.
What is giving a nonhuman thing human qualities?
100
This is the reason you capitalize some nouns.
What is they are proper nouns or they are at the beginnings of sentences?
100
"You could hear the forest laughing as the frightened children ran" is an example of this.
What is personification?
100
This is why you should always read the italics.
What is because italics may have important information you need to answer the questions?
200
This is another term for literary device
What is figurative language?
200
This is the definition of a noun.
What is a person, place, or thing?
200
This is the reason a writer might use adjectives.
What is to make the writing more descriptive?
200
"The grass swayed and smiled in the soft sunshine" is an example of these TWO things.
What are alliteration and personification?
200
This is what you write in the columns as you read the passage.
What are the words: Example 1, Example 2 etc?
300
James and Jonas jumped out of the jet with parachutes is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
300
This is the definition of an adjective.
What is a word that describes a noun?
300
This is the reason you should read the question before you read the passage in an open response.
What is because then you'll know what to look for when you're reading?
300
"The class was like a 3-ring circus when I walked in after recess" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
300
These are 3 things you should do if you're not sure of a multiple choice answer.
What is read the quesion and answers over again, look back in the text, use process of elimination?
400
This literary device appeals to the your five senses in order to help you picture the scene.
What is imagery?
400
This is the definition of an adverb.
What is a word that describes a verb?
400
This is the reason you mark up the text when working on open response.
What is so you know where the details are for your answer?
400
"I was so tired I could sleep for a year" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
400
In a play, this is what the (parenthesis) after the character's name mean.
What are stage directions?
500
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today" is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
500
This is the definition of a simile.
What is a comparison between two unlike things using the word like or as?
500
This is why February is an adjective, not a noun, in the following sentence: During February vacation, I am going to Florida.
What is because it's describing which vacation it is?
500
"The weight lifters arms are solid steel" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
500
This is what you should do if you don't know a word when answering a question.
What is use the other words around it (context clues) to try to figure it out, or look at the root word?
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