Column #1
This will cost an arm and a leg!
What is an idiom?
I am so angry I could explode!
The mosquito buzzed in my ear.
What is onomatopoeia?
Nancy never said Neal had nice hair.
What is alliteration?
The world is a stage.
What is a metaphor?
The house was as messy and as dirty as a barn.
What is a simile?
The snow covered me in a blanket.
What is personification?
It was nothing.
What is an understatement?
The bird chirped all morning long!
What is onomatopoeia?
We were standing there and it came out of the blue!
What is an idiom?
Carlos called his mother and cried about chess club being cancelled.
The wind danced around the trees.
What is personification?
Oh, it's just a little cut.
What is understatement?
The moon is a ball of cheese.
What is a metaphor?
I am so tired I could sleep a thousand years.
What is hyperbole.
The author's attitude toward or about the characters and events in the story.
What is tone?
What is irony?
Insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological sequence of a story.
What is flashback?
A combination of words that have opposite meanings.
What is an oxymoron?
What is foreshadowing?
A statement or situation that seems contradictory but reveals truth.
What is a paradox?
The general idea or point of a story.
What is the theme?
The atmosphere of the story or th efeeling the author creates for the reading.
What is mood?
Using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea.
What is symbolism?
The use of vivid words or figurative language to evoke a mental image or appeal to a reader's senses.
What is imagery?