"Back in the Game"
"The Great Hurricane"
WOW WORDS
Figurative Language
Misscellaneous
100
To cut off all or part of someone's leg or arm
What is Amputate
100
A violent storm with winds of at least 74 miles per hour along, with rain, lightning, and thunder.
What is Hurricane
100
to produce or bring into being; create
What is Generate
100
The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds. Example: BUZZ or HISS
What is ONOMATOPOEIA
100
The moral or lesson about life that the story teaches.
What is Theme
200
Describes a describes a device that replaces a missing part of the body.
What is Prosthetic
200
The act or process of destroying something
What is Destruction.
200
to claim so as to offset a previous claim.
What is Counterclaim
200
A figure of speech in which things that are different are compared by the use of the words like or as
What is SIMILES
200
The story of a person's life; written by that person.
What is autobiography
300
A tube that carries blood from the heart to all the other parts of the body.
What is Artery
300
To run away from danger.
What is Flee
300
to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate:
What is Verify
300
The repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words. EXAMPLE: Peter Piper Picked A Peck Of Pickled Peppers.
What is ALLITERATION
300
Words around an unknown word that help you figure out its meaning.
What is Context Clues
400
Got a person to join
What is Recruited
400
Held or grabbed on to something tightly.
What is Clutched.
400
being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action
What is Ambivalent
400
Writing which gives non human objects human qualities.
What is PERSONIFICATION
400
A piece of writing written by someone who was involved in the event he/she describes
What is Primary Source
500
Registered, signed up to join.
What is Enrolled
500
A very difficult or painful experience.
What is Ordeal
500
to deter by advice or persuasion
What is Dissuade
500
An expression that does not mean what it literally says, like "You’re driving me up a wall"
What is IDIOMS
500
When the reader knows something the characters do not
What is dramatic irony
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