Figurative Language
His eyes sparkled like the stars in the sky.
What is a simile?
What is to haggle?
The protagonist from A Christmas Carol.
Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?
The author's attitude that comes across in their writing.
What is tone?
Based on The Wild Robot, write a narrative that describes what will most likely happen next in the story. Use what you know about the characters, setting, and events in the passage to write your narrative.
What is narrative: continue the story?
Every summer, the ocean called to her and she was excited to begin surfing again.
What is personification?
To surprise or greatly amaze.
What is to flabbergast?
The author of The Giver.
Who is Lois Lowry?
The message or moral of a story.
What is theme?
Based on “The Anasazi,” write an essay explaining how technology and sciences such as archaeology were used by researchers trying to solve the mystery of the Anasazi’s disappearance. Be sure to use information from the passage to develop your essay.
What is a single TEAC?
The computers at school are old dinosaurs.
What is a metaphor?
To make uneasy; to upset someone greatly
What is to perturb?
Genre of literature that focuses on injustice or suffering; the opposite of a perfect world.
What is dystopian fiction?
Part of speech that indicates position or direction.
What is a preposition?
Based on both “Waiting for Mr. Lincoln” and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, write an essay explaining whether Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were effective leaders. Be sure to use information from both excerpts to develop your essay.
What is a double TEAC?
We were really in a pickle when they found out what happened.
What is an idiom?
To be a sign of something.
What is to signify?
The author of both Lamb to the Slaughter and The Landlady.
Who is Roald Dahl?
Type of poem that is shaped like its subject.
What is a concrete poem?
Based on Plastic: A Toxic Love Story and High Tech Trash, write a letter to your congressperson explaining the harmful effects of plastic waste and e-waste. Also, explain what immediate actions should be taken and why those actions are necessary.
What is argument?
Go slow over Opal Road.
What is assonance?
Freedom from political control.
What is sovereignty?
A Christmas Carol was written during this literary era.
What is the Victorian Era?
The predicate of this sentence: Sally ran quickly to the store.
What is ran?
These are the major components of argument writing.
What are claim, evidence (and analysis), counter-argument, rebuttal, final thoughts?