Figuratively Speaking
Figure This Out!
What's Your Point?
"Noun" You Have It!
General Questions
100
A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another. This type does not use the words "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
100
The chair stood straight like a soldier on guard by the door.
What is personification?
100
narration using "I" or "we".
What is first person point of view?
100
Nouns that show ownership.
What are possessive nouns?
100
A sensible decision you reach based on details or facts in a story or article.
What is a conclusion?
200
Playing chess with Ashley is like trying to outsmart a computer.
What is a simile?
200
Some students would rather eat dirt and die than have to sit down and read a book.
What is a hyperbole?
200
Narration using "he", "she", or "they".
What is third person point of view?
200
-add either an 's or only an apostrophe.
What are ways to make nouns possessive?
200
Words that connect your sentences and paragraphs.
What are transitional words?
300
Also known as "tongue twisters".
What is alliteration?
300
"like" or "as".
What are the words that differentiate a simile from a metaphor?
300
Narration using "you".
What is second person point of view?
300
Defines groups of objects and can be counted; therefore, they have plural forms.
What are collective nouns?
300
Bid me to weep, and I will weep While I have eyes to see; And having none, and yet I will keep A heart to weep for thee.
What is an example of a rhyming scheme pattern of A B A B?
400
-fleet feet sweep by sleeping Greeks.
What is assonance?
400
Language that means more than what it says on the surface.
What is figurative language?
400
Written from the point of view of a single character.
What is third person limited?
400
If a common noun begins a sentence.
What is the only way a common noun can be capitalized?
400
A noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb in a sentence. It answers the questions what? or whom? about the verb.
What is a direct object?
500
Crack! Splat! Sizzle! Buzz! (Hint: We have not discussed this type of figurative language yet) DAILY DOUBLE! DAILY DOUBLE! DAILY DOUBLE!
What is onomatopoeia? (A word that sounds like what it is)
500
Arise, shine, for thy light is come DAILY DOUBLE!DAILY DOUBLE!DAILY DOUBLE!
What is assonance? For an extra 100 points, what letter sound is being repeated?
500
The narrator knows what all the characters think and feel.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
500
love, hate, anger
What are abstract nouns?
500
A verb that requires a direct object.
What is a transitive verb?
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