Figurative Language
All the world is a stage.
What is a metaphor?
Action leading up to the climax of a story
What is rising action?
Hook Overview, Thesis
How to write an introduction?
Don't get bamboozled by shady street vendors.
What is tricked or fooled?
427 Union Avenue
What is the address of Union Avenue Middle School?
The wind sang. The trees shook.
What is personification?
Background information provided by the author to help the reader understand the story better.
What is exposition?
Topic Sentence, Evidence, Explain, Insight.
What is TEXI or who to write a body paragraph?
Listening to Drake is unbearable!
What is awful or painful?
365 and 1/4 days.
How long does it take the Earth to rotate around the sun?
It's a thousand degrees in here! Can we open a window?
What is hyperbole?
The organizational chunk of a poem; group of lines; like a paragraph
What is a stanza?
Thesis, Overview, Clincher
How to write a conclusion?
The medicine should help ameliorate the pain. Ameliorate means...
What is to ease the pain?
Two days, ninety minutes per day.
How long is the ELA section of the NJSLA?
A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses.
What is imagery?
The pattern or beat of a poem.
What is rhythm?
Another name for a story.
What is a narrative?
Mr. Freely is a cantankerous, old man who’s always yelling at us to get off his lawn. I hate his guts! Cantankerous means...
What is mean, angry, or bad-tempered?
Three days, sixty minutes.
How long is the math section of the NJSLA?
The woods are lovely dark and deep. But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
What is repetition?
Identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem.
What is rhyme?
R.S.T. stands for...
What is research simulation task?
Everybody was enraptured when the roller coaster did the big drop. Enraptured means...
What is full of excitement, or gives intense joy?
June 19, 2024
What is Juneteenth or the last day of school for the 2023-2024 school year?