Even when the police officers put the handcuffs on my mother, she maintained her DIGNITY, holding her head up high as she was marched off the protest site.
Use context clues to define IMPERVIOUS:
His steely personality made him IMPERVIOUS to jokes about his awful haircut."
The point in the story when the problem has been resolved and coming to a close
What is the resolution?
This is another way of saying main idea or thesis statement.
What is a controlling idea?
This language appeals to the five senses
What is imagery?
What is figurative language?
Use context clues to define BRANDISHING?
As the officer waited outside, the robber emerged from the bank, BRANDISHING a weapon.
RAIN is to PRECIPITATION as
A) salmon is to seafood
B) snow is to tundra
C) jungle is to desert
D) pet is to hamster
What is...
A) salmon is to seafood
What figurative language is being used?
"He showed the strength of Hercules when he lifted the couch all by himself."
What is an allusion?
A bookmark by the American Dairy Association listing 10 reasons to drink milk.
The main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work which may be stated directly or indirectly.
What is mythology?
"She was just a trophy to Aiden, another object to possess."
Using knowledge and information from the text to come to conclusions and make the concept more clear.
FINALE is to MUSICAL ::
A) inning is to baseball
B) stitch is to tapestry
C) mystery is to novel
D) barista is to coffee
E) homestretch is to race
What is "(E)
E) homestretch is to race
What figurative language is being used?
The school's sign when viral because it read, "We are committed to excellense."
What is irony?
What figurative language is being used?
"You have to be cruel to be kind."
What is an idiom? or What is a proverb?
"Some days my thoughts are just cocoons hanging from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind."