Random RLA Fun
Figurative Language
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
Grammar Review
Reading Skills
100

What does “RLA” stand for?

What is Reading Language Arts?

100

Question: “Her smile was as bright as the sun.” What type of figurative language is this?

Answer: What is a Simile?

100

The narrator of the novel?

Who is Kenny?

100

What is the verb in this sentence: “The students completed their assignment.”

What is completed?

100

The central message or most important point.

What is the main idea?

200

Where and when a story takes place.

What is the setting?

200

“The wind whispered through the trees.” What type of figurative language is this?

What is personification?

200

Why do Kenny’s parents send Byron to Birmingham?

To fix his behavior

200

Correct the sentence: “me and him went to the store.”

What is "He and I went to the store."

200

To use clues and evidence from the story and your own prior knowledge to figure something out.

What is inference?

300

What are the steps in the RACE strategy for writing an ECR?

What is 

R-Restate the question

A-Answer the question

C-Cite evidence

E- Explain

300

A comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

300

What major historical event is connected to the novel?

What is the Bombing of 16th St Baptist Church?

300

A word that describes a noun.

What is an adjective?

300

What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction?

Fiction is made up; nonfiction is factual.

400

What two components must ALL sentences have?

What is: Must start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark.

400

 “Boom! Crash!” are examples of what?

What is an Onomatopoeia?

400

Describe one way Kenny changes throughout the story.

What is from good to bad? Other answers can be accepted!!

400

Identify the conjunction in this sentence: “I wanted pizza, but we ate tacos.”

What is "but"

400

The lesson or message of a story.

What is theme?

500

What is the difference between first-person and third-person point of view?

First-person uses “I” or “we”; third-person uses “he,” “she,” or “they.”

500

"I'm so hungry, I can eat a whole cow" is an example of what?

What is a hyperbole?

500

What is one major theme of the novel?

What is family, racism, courage, growing up, or resilience?

500

In subject verb agreement, a single subject must have?

What is a plural verb?

500

Details or quotes from the text used to support answers.

What is text evidence?