We will dance our way out of the building next Monday.
The word _______ is the verb.
What is dance?
100
A way to compare two things using the words 'like' or 'as.'
What is a simile?
100
The first person that Bella thought betrayed her.
Who is Pietro?
100
Thinking between the lines or looking beyond what is written in a text to find a deeper meaning.
What is inference?
100
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die.
What is nothing?
200
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is one of my favorite middle school novels. There are this many nouns in this sentence.
What is 5?
200
Giving human characteristics to things that are nonhuman for a literary effect.
What is personification?
200
How the Other Half Lived is a book based on the realistic lives of immigrants during the early 1900s, written by..
Who is Jacob Riis?
200
The message that an author wants you to get out of a story or article.
What is theme?
200
A man leaves home and turns left three times, only to return home facing two men wearing masks. Who are those two men?
What is a catcher and an umpire?
300
Yetta's socialist behavior was what pushed her to emigrate from Russia. The word ________ is the adjective in the sentence.
What is 'socialist?'
300
Turning one thing into another. For example: My mother is a bear in the morning if she doesn't get enough sleep.
What is a metaphor?
300
This person begins the story, Uprising, with an unexpected reunion.
Who is Miss. Livingston?
300
The definition of a word that you can find in the dictionary.
What is denotation?
300
If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?
What is there is no smoke, it’s an electric train?
400
They danced merrily during their break at the shirtwaist factory. A synonym for the adverb in this sentence would be __________.
What is ______ (merrily)?
400
An exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
400
This protagonist made decisions that no girl her age should have to be responsible for, not only does she have to take care of her brother, but she has to take care of her grandmother, too.
Who is Angel?
400
The way a word affects someone emotionally, the way the word makes you feel.
What is connotation?
400
A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?
What is...None of them, because you can’t get a banana from a coconut tree!
500
The man with the stolen key ran around the corner and through the dark hallway. The prepositions in this sentence are ____ and _____.
What are around and through?
500
Words that actually say what they sound like.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The nonfiction text that was read with the fictional text, Uprising.
What is Flesh and Blood So Cheap?
500
Contrasting feelings within a piece of literature.
What is juxtaposition?
500
The Smith family is a very wealthy family that lives in a big, circular home. One morning, Mr. Smith woke up and saw a strawberry jam stain on his new carpet. He figured out that everyone who was there that morning had a jam sandwich. By reading the following excuses, figure out who spilled the jam.
Billy Smith: “I was outside playing basketball.”
The Maid: “I was dusting the corners of the house.”
Chef: “I was starting to make lunch for later.”
Who is lying?
A:
Who is the maid? The house is circular, it has no corners.