Inferencing
Dan decided to use an umbrella after looking out the window. Why?
It was raining.
Barry liked playing board games, but he hated losing. He hated losing so much that he would do whatever it took to win, even bending or breaking the rules. He'd steal money from the bank and hide it under the couch cushions. He'd skip spaces while he was moving around the board. Eventually, Barry couldn't find anyone to play board games with.
Cheater's never win
Identify the type of figurative language used in this passage: "I am a tornado of legs and feet And warm wind whipping past..."
What is metaphor?
They composed a letter to the governor, asking for more soldiers in the fort. Composed means ______________.
What is wrote?
Identify the point of view: Nick sighed. He knew Mr. Swanson had noticed.
What is third person?
Abe held his book closer to the lantern. Its small flame barely lit the page. Abe needed to read another two pages before school tomorrow. Just then, Abe's father walked in. "Abe, I need your help hitching up the horse and buggy." Make an inference about the setting.
What is a cabin long ago (Abe Lincoln's childhood cabin)?
Blaine opened up the present and began pouting. He screamed in a high-pitched voice, "This is Captain Thunder! I wanted Captain Lightning!" His mother looked at him with dismay and handed him another present, which he greedily opened. The next time that Blaine returned from his father's house, he was shocked to find that all of these toys and gifts, along with many other of his things, had been generously donated to needy children
Be grateful for what you have.
What 2 things are being compared in this simile?
Sarah's smile is like a ray of sunshine.
Sarah's smile and a ray of sunshine
Moving all the furniture took a Herculean effort. Herculean effort means ___________________.
What is something difficult or requiring strength?
His mouth hurt! The man knew it was time to make an appointment. When the day came, he waited in a room until he was called. Then he went to a small room and laid back in a moveable chair. The person in charge picked up a tool and bent over him as he began. Infer where this man is.
What is a dentist's office?
A donkey and a fox decided to team up to find food together. They were traveling in the forest when they crossed paths with a lion. They were both scared. But the fox hoped to save himself. He approached the lion and offered to help him get the donkey if the lion would let him escape unharmed. The lion agreed. So the fox and the donkey walked on, with the lion trailing behind them. The fox led the donkey to a hidden pit, left by some long‐ago hunter as a trap for wild animals, and the donkey fell in. As soon as the donkey was in the pit, the lion came out of hiding and ate the fox. Then he ate the donkey.
What goes around comes around
Identify the type of figurative language used: "He is as quiet as a mouse."
What is simile?
The laceration on the boy's finger was not too bad; it only needed two stitches. Laceration means ________________.
What is cut?
The young woman looked down at her long dress. She felt like a princess! She and the others stood quietly until they heard the music. Then she walked down the aisle, holding her flowers. Make an inference about what is occurring.
What is a wedding?
It was a beautiful spring day. The grasshopper was flitting about, enjoying himself, when he crossed paths with an ant. The ant was working very hard, carrying bits of food deep down into his anthill. “Why are you working so hard?” The grasshopper said. “I want to have plenty to eat,” the ant replied. The grasshopper laughed. “Plenty to eat!” he cried. “Why there is food everywhere that you look!” “That’s true,” the ant said. “There is enough food for today. But there will come a day when it won’t be true.” The grasshopper hopped away, not wanting to bother with the morose little ant.
Soon spring gave way to summer, summer to fall, and fall to winter. When the fields were covered with snow, the ant sat far down in his anthill, safe and warm, his stomach full, confident that he had enough to eat to see him through the winter. The grasshopper, who had not made any preparations for winter, shivered, and went from one friend to another begging for food and feeling very foolish indeed.
Be prepared.
What does the metaphor mean?
You are the apple of my eye.
I really like you.
Slavery was abolished after the Civil War. Abolished means _______________.
What is done away with/ got rid of?
Animals that are endangered are close to becoming extinct. That means their species will no longer exist on Earth. Obey all rules and restrictions when camping or hiking. Do not feed wild animals. Take good care of the forest environment. No littering. Leave it better than you found it. Why do you think littering is dangerous for endangered species and the environment as a whole?
Littering can harm animals and pollute their environment.
A fly bit a bald man on the head. The man tried to shoo the fly away. But the fly landed on the man’s head and bit him again. This made the man furious. He slapped his head to squash the fly, but the fly flew away just before the man delivered a stinging slap to his own head. The fly landed on the man’s head a third time and laughed at him. “You would hurt yourself just to get back at me?” he taunted. The man was so enraged that he tried to hit the fly with a rock. Instead, he knocked himself, senseless, to the ground.
Hurting others also hurts you.
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Simile uses like or as to compare 2 things but metaphor does not.