Figurative Language
Name the type of figurative language.
Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard.
What is a simile?
Fondness.
What is affection?
The beginning of a story, where you learn background information like the characters' names and the setting.
What is the exposition?
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
A group of lines within a poem.
What is a stanza?
Name the type of figurative language.
His hair is a tornado.
What is a metaphor?
Donated.
What is contributed?
The part of the story where you begin to learn about the conflict.
What is the rising action?
An action word.
What is a verb?
Words that have similar end sounds, such as "flow" and "woe."
What is rhyme scheme?
Name the type of figurative language.
Whoosh!
What is onomatopoeia?
A desert is most likely to have this kind of climate.
What is arid?
The most exciting part of the story; the turning point.
What is the climax?
A word that describes or modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
A word is repeated multiple times throughout the poem.
What is repetition?
Name the type of figurative.
The moon was singing to me through my window.
What is personification?
A teacher's chair is probably able to do this.
What is swivel?
The part of the story where the events begin to come together.
What is the falling action?
A word that describes or modifies a verb.
What is an adverb?
The rhyme scheme of this poem:
Life gets faster every day.
No time to think, no time to play.
Hurry, chaos, lots of stress:
Tension leads to sleeplessness.
When will all this madness cease?
Where is free time? Where is peace?
I'm running, doing, till I drop.
Give me buttons: Pause, Mute, STOP!
By: Joanna Fuchs
What is AABB?
Name the type of figurative language.
He let the cat out of the bag.
What is an idiom?
A wedding right might have this done to it.
What is an inscription? (Inscribe)
The end of the story when all the loose ends are tied up and the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
Hooks up words and phrases and clauses.
What is a conjunction?
The theme of this poem:
Life gets faster every day.
No time to think, no time to play.
Hurry, chaos, lots of stress:
Tension leads to sleeplessness.
When will all this madness cease?
Where is free time? Where is peace?
I'm running, doing, till I drop.
Give me buttons: Pause, Mute, STOP!
By: Joanna Fuchs
What is life is crazy and we should remember to pause?