Figurative Language
A comparison using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The author of The Cat in the Hat.
Who is Dr. Seuss (or Theodore Geisel)?
A word that describes a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
A three line Japanese poem with 17 total syllables, usually about nature.
What is a haiku?
Literature that describes imaginary events and people.
What is fiction?
When animals or objects are given human qualities.
What is personification?
The author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Who is Jeff Kinney?
A word that describes an action or state of being.
What is a verb?
A funny Irish poem where each stanza typically has 5 lines and an AABBA rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
Literature that is based on facts, real events, and real people.
What is nonfiction?
A statement using extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
The author of the Percy Jackson series.
Who is Rick Riordan?
A word that modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
A poem that tells a story, could be sung, and usually has a refrain.
What is a ballad?
A story dealing with a puzzling crime, particularly murder.
What is mystery?
When a word is spelled and pronounced to imitate a sound or sound effect.
What is onomatopoeia?
The author of the Hunger Games series.
Who is Suzanne Collins?
A word used to join two or more things (words, phrases, or even sentences).
What is a conjunction?
A poem with no obvious rhyme scheme, stanza structure, or meter.
What is a free verse poem?
A fictional story set in the future, often portraying space, time travel, or life on on other planets.
What is science fiction?
This is a figure of speech, not meant to be taken literally. For example, "It's raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
The author of the Divergent series.
Who is Veronica Roth?
A word or phrase used abruptly (or suddenly) as an aside or interruption.
What is an interjection?
A 14 line romantic poem that ends on a rhyming couplet and was popular in Shakespeare's time.
What is a sonnet?
Imaginitive fiction involving magic, adventure, and mythical creatures, often in a setting other than the real world.
What is fantasy?