Questions
Vocabulary
Treasures
Examples of Figurative Language
Definitions of Figurative Language
100
Greg's age.
What is 14?
100
a scamp, rascal, scoundrel, or villain
What is a scalawag?
100
Lemon Brown's weapon he threatened Greg with.
What is a razor?
100
Frogs singing and dancing.
What is personification?
100
Giving an nonhuman thing or animal human like qualities.
What is personification?
200
Lemon Brown's profession
What is blues singer?
200
Markings such as initials, slogans, or drawings written, spray painted, or sketched on a sidewalk, wall of a building or public restroom.
What is graffiti?
200
This is the class Greg was failing.
What is math?
200
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?
200
A comparison that does not use like or as?
What is a metaphor?
300
This is the person Greg was most trying to avoid in the exposition of the story.
Who is Greg's Father?
300
Having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold.
What is musty?
300
The name of the basketball team Greg was hoping to play with.
Who are the Scorpions?
300
Curiosity killed the cat.
What is an idiom?
300
Exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
This is the person Lemon Brown's son lived with after his wife's death.
Who is Jesse's aunt?
400
A run down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
What is a tenement?
400
The age of the news clippings.
What is 50 years?
400
Doesn't a doughnut sound delightful?
What is alliteration?
400
The use of words that imitate sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Greg does this when he enters the house after his encounter with Lemon Brown.
What is smile?
500
A grocery store, especially among Spanish-speaking Americans.
What is bodega?
500
This is the climax of the story.
What is: when the thugs enter the tenement and threaten Lemon Brown?
500
He has a laugh like thunder.
What is a simile?
500
The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
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