Opposites Attract
This adjective describes someone who eats all the late-night snacks without offering any to their roommate.
What is selfish?
If you are feeling a little bit sick, tired, or unwell, you are said to be under this.
What is the weather?
To say or do something to make people feel more relaxed in a new social situation is to break this.
What is the ice?
Phrases like "runs like the wind" and "as quiet as a graveyard" belong to this category because they use "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This is the name of the literal control room inside Riley’s mind where the main emotions live and work.
What is Headquarters?
Waking up early at 6:30 AM to prepare a fresh breakfast is this type of fully planned, deliberate decision.
What is intentional?
It rains in the desert or your distant uncle visits only once during this incredibly rare lunar event.
What is a blue moon?
When you completely change your mind about moving apartments or cooking chicken, you have a change of this organ.
What is a heart?
Phrases like "time is money" or "my brother is a night owl" map one thing directly onto another, making them this figure of speech.
What is a metaphor?
This bright yellow emotion is the very first one to pop into existence when Riley is born.
Who is Joy?
Experiencing a sudden flat tire right at the start of a long road trip is a perfect example of this hope-crushing adjective
What is discouraging?
Buying a brand-new smartphone or a giant luxury car will cost you these two specific body parts.
What are an arm and a leg?
If neither you nor your friend brought an umbrella during a sudden downpour, you are both stuck in the same one of these.
What is a boat?
To transform the simile "Her heart is as cold as stone" into a direct metaphor, you would write this 4-word phrase.
What is "Her heart is a stone"?
This is the deeply controversial, gross green ingredient found on the pizza at the San Francisco shop.
What is broccoli?
Intermediate language learners aim to foster complete "this noun" so they can complete final reading assignments entirely on their own.
What is independence
When people give you questionable advice on social media, you should always take it with a single grain of this seasoning.
What is salt?
Accepting responsibility for a mistake and dealing with the negative consequences means you finally have to face this.
What is the music?
Fill in the blank for this worksheet metaphor: "The thick fog was a gray _______ covering the town."
What is a blanket?
Joy and this specific blue emotion get accidentally sucked into Long-Term Memory after the Core Memories drop.
Who is Sadness?
Changing frequently and randomly in quality—like exam scores that swing wildly from week to week—means you are being this.
What is inconsistent?
A massive, obvious problem that everyone knows about but nobody wants to talk about is this mammal in the room.
What is the elephant?
Sharing juicy gossip, deep secrets, or dramatic updates about the drama club means you are spilling this hot beverage.
What is the tea?
This is the exact item used to finish the following simile from your story prompt: "The exam wouldn't be a piece of _______."
What is cake?
Places like Honesty and Hockey inside Riley's mind are known as these core-memory-powered destinations.
What are Personality Islands?