Literary lingo
What literary device compares two things using "as" or "like"?
(The moon was like a silver coin)
Simile
What do say when a person is not cool?
No aura
What do we call the people that read (or receive) a story?
Audience
What part of speech describes a noun?
(blue, tall)
Adjective
What do we call a dictionary that gives us words with similar meanings to other words?
Thesaurus
What literary device compares two things saying one IS the other?
(His words were a dagger)
Metaphor
Give me a word that means the same as "to line up" and spell it
Queue
What do we call a text written about someone's life, written by him or herself?
Autobiography
What type of word is "anxiety"?
(His anxiety grew as the exam approached)
Noun
What do we call words that have opposite meanings to others?
antonym
What literary device gives human emotions or actions to inanimated objects?
(The wind howling at the door was making me tremble)
Personification
What is the name of the person that ruled in Ancient Egypt?
Pharaoh
A story that talks about dragons and magical creatures is what type and genre?
Fiction, fantasy
Identify the verb in this sentence: The tired hikers could barely hear the rushing waterfall over the loud wind
could (barely) hear
Write this passive voice sentence in active voice:
The tarts were nibbled by the mice
The mice nibbled the tarts
What literary device happens when the author repeats the same consonant sound at the start of closely connected words?
(Seven silly sausages, Lazy lions lounge in the sun)
Alliteration
Literary device that uses words that imitate the actual sound they make.
Onomatopoeia
What is the type of texts used in a manual that helps us to build IKEA furniture?
Instructional
What kind of word describes or modifies a verb?
(kindly)
Adverb
What punctuation sign should we use to make the meaning of this sentence clearer?
Let's eat Mum.
Let's eat, Mum. (comma)
What literary device uses language that appeals directly to the five senses as if the author were painting a picture with words?
(the coarse, damp gravel crunching underfoot)
Imagery
Spell a word that means "naughtly" in a playful way?
Mischievous
In non-fiction texts, some paragraphs have special titles that explain what this part is going to talk about. What are they called?
Subheadings
What's the pronoun in this sentence? James gave the book to her
Her
What three punctuation signs can we use to separate main clauses, instead of full stops and conjunctions?
S, C, D
Semicolons (;), colons (:) and dashes (-)