Simile or Metaphor?
Her eyes were as blue as the sea.
Simile
100
Name a character from a myth.
Hercules
100
Name a character from The Simpsons Movie.
Homer, Marge, Maggie, Lisa, Bart
100
Name a word that ends in -able. Tell what it means.
Believable, able to believe it.
Readable, able to read it.
200
What word means the opposite of panic?
a. fear
b. worry
c. calm
d. puzzled
Calm
200
Simile or Metaphor?
Our trip was an absolute train wreck.
Metaphor
200
What is the author's purpose in a commercial?
to persuade
200
The events that happen in the story are called the ______.
plot
200
What suffix can be added to excite to mean a state of being excited?
a. ness
b. ment
c. ly
d. able
ment
Excitement
300
Which word is a synonym for ponder?
a. ride
b. watch
c. hover
d. wonder
wonder
300
Millie May mixes muffins on Monday.
This is an example of:
a. onomatopoeia
b. alliteration
c. homophones
Alliteration
300
The lesson of a folk tale is often called the _____ of the story.
moral
300
Every story has a ________. The _______ in Chasing Vermeer is that the painting, "A Lady Writing" has been stolen.
Problem
300
Most words that end in -ed are:
a. nouns
b. adjectives
c. verbs
verbs
400
Kevin was the most gallant boy she had ever met. What he had done was amazingly brave!
What does gallant mean?
very brave
400
What does this idiom mean?
He is a chip off the old block.
He is just like his father or his brother.
400
the autobiography of Bugs Bunny, would be what genre?
fiction
400
Name a book that has a non-human main character.
Homeward Bound
400
Would something that only happens in the U.S. be considered international?
NO
500
Karen was schocked to see who her opposition was in the chess tournament.
What does opposition mean?
person playing against her
500
Hyperbole is extreme exaggeration.
Use hyperbole to describe how hot it would be at the equator or how cold it would be in Antarctica.
The equator is so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk.
Antarctica is so cold that your tears would turn to icicles.
500
A story about 5th graders doing projects in Computer class would be:
a. biography
b. historical fiction
c. realistic fiction
d. realistic nonfiction
e. science fiction
realistic fiction
500
What is the "where" and "when" of a story? Give an example.
The setting.
Chasing Vermeer's setting is Chicago during present day.
500
To make the opposite of each of these words, what prefix would you add at the beginning?
-obey
-like
-funtion
-satisfied