Figurative Language
They fought like cats and dogs.
Simile.
Many students in the US say that they've been bullied at school. Natalie Hampton is a high school student who was bullied a lot in middle school. She often had no one to sit with at lunch. So she created a phone app called "Sit With Us." This app lets students sign up and post when there are free seats at their lunch tables. These students have promised to be kind to those who come sit with them. Hampton hopes her app will help students find people to sit with without fear of being bullied.
Problem and Solution.
What are the 3 things that end a sentence?
Period, exclamation, and question mark.
I recognized the familiar smell of my roommate's cooking. If you change the word smell to stench, the word now has a ____________ connotation.
Negative.
What are synonyms?
Words with the same or very similar meanings.
Boom!
Onomatopoeia.
Robots that look like humans are called androids. But not all robots are androids. The industrial robots used in manufacturing and production look like machines and not at all like human beings. So what does an android have in common with an industrial robot? They both have computers. And they both have sensors to gather information and ways to interact with their environments, too.
Compare and Contrast.
Eric and Kane put _________ phones on the teacher's desk.
(A) there
(B) their
(C) they're
(B) Their
The connotation of a word can be....
Positive, negative, and neutral.
What are antonyms?
Words that have opposite meanings.
Lightening danced across the sky.
Personification.
The Greenland shark can grow to be around 16 feet long. It’s an apex predator, an animal that is at the top of the food chain. No other creatures prey on apex predators. The Greenland shark can live to be about 400 years old, making it the the longest-living vertebrate animal.
Description.
What are nouns and adjectives?
- A person, place, or a thing.
- Describing words.
Mr. Smith has been a valuable employee since the company started. During that time, he has expressed many strong opinions that have influenced the company. His methods of solving problems are sometimes unusual. In short, he is a real leader.
Positive connotation.
What is an antonym for consequence?
(A) punishment
(B) prize
(C) detention
(B) Prize
This bag weighs a ton.
Hyperbole.
The fighting in World War I stopped on November 11, 1918. A year later, President Woodrow Wilson declared November 11th Armistice Day. He said that every year, Americans would honor and thank the veterans who fought. Armistice Day became a federal holiday in 1938.
Sequence.
If I get a new dog, ______ name will be Dexter.
(A) it's
(B) its
(B) its
The teacher was mildly intimated by Merdine's bossy behavior. If you change the word bossy to assertive, the word now has a ____ connotation.
Positive.
What is a synonym for accurate?
(A) creative
(B) wrong
(C) correct
(D) a guess
(C) Correct
Life is a highway.
Metaphor.
A river is a large natural stream of flowing water. The source of a river is the place where the river starts. This is usually the highest point in the river. Many rivers begin in springs, places where underground water flows to the Earth’s surface. Some rivers begin in melting glaciers high up in the mountains or in lakes.
Description.
What is a homophone?
(A) Words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meaning.
(B) Words that look alike and have the same meaning
(C) Words that have the same meaning.
(D) Words that rhyme.
(A)
What is an example of denotation?
(A) Childish being negative while youthful is positive
(B) Dreamer- a person who is dreaming or has dreams
(C) Candy apples are very delicious.
(D) How have you been?
B
He faced his task with great fortitude. Find the synonym for fortitude.
(A) dourness
(B) opulence
(C) impetus
(D) courage
(D) Courage