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What are the two devices that are used to compare dissimilar things, and what is the difference between the two?
What are similes and metaphors. A simile uses like or as to compare, and a metaphor is a direct comparison.
100
True or False - All poems should have at least one rhyme in them.
What is False - poems do not have to rhyme.
100
What are 4 types of genre found in fiction?
Answers may vary but may include... What are fantasy, realistic fiction, science fiction, mystery, historical fiction, and adventure.
100
What is the primary purpose of a thesaurus?
What is to find a synonym or antonym of a word?
100
What is the difference between a major and minor character?
What is that a major character(s) is important to the plot of the story and usually included throughout the story. A minor character may add to the story, but isn't as important to the plot of the story.
200
"The leaves sang a song as the wind blew through them" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is Personification?
200
What are the characteristics of a haiku?
What is that they have 3 lines, the first and third line have 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and they are usually about nature.
200
What is the theme of a story?
What is the lesson that the author is trying to share in his/her story?
200
If you wanted to find out if Brazil was north or south of Argentina, what sort of reference book could you look in?
What is an atlas?
200
What point of view is the following sentence being told in, and how can you tell? I hollered down the stairs for my brother to bring my backpack up to me.
What is 1st person POV, and you can tell because it says "I hollered...", which in a book would mean that the narrator is a character in the story.
300
Create a metaphor to compare shoes to clouds.
Answers will vary, but should NOT use the words like or as.
300
What type of a poem is the following? Germs are small but cruel Germs can spread across the world Germs are cute but EVIL!
What is a haiku?
300
What are 2 or 3 prefixes that mean "not"?
What are un-, ir-, in-, il-, dis-?
300
If you wanted to find out who won the Grammy Award for best new artist in 2012, what sort of reference book could look in?
What is an almanac?
300
If a story has the following sentence in it, what point of view might it be being told from, and why? They walked as slow as they could because they were afraid of what they might see around the corner.
What is 3rd person POV because it uses the pronoun "they", which means that the story might be told from a narrator's POV, instead of a character's POV.
400
Create a simile comparing a football player to a tiger.
Answers will vary, but should compare using like or as.
400
What type of poem is the following, and how do you know? Baseball Throw and catch it Batting to hit it far Playing every position Sporty
What is a cinquain... because it has 5 lines, and each line has a certain number of words and has certain characteristics in it, such as the first and last word of the cinquain are synonyms, or at least related.
400
If a company has an advertisement with the rock star Pink in it, telling how much she loves to drink "Pinkalicious Pop", what persuasive technique are they using?
What is testimonial?
400
What are 3 things BESIDES the definition that you can find in a dictionary?
What are how to pronounce a word, how many syllables are in a word, a word's origin, the part of speech, etc.?
400
What are the 5 components of plot, and which one is considered the "turning point" of the story?
What are exposition/beginning, rising action, climax, denoument/falling action, conclusion/resolution? The climax is considered the turning point of the story.
500
"My parents told me to break a leg before I went onstage for the play" includes what type of figurative language?
What is an idiom?
500
What type of poem is "Fog", by Carl Sandburg? The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
What is free verse?
500
What does the word omniscient mean?
What is when the narrator of a book is all-knowing, showing thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
500
Magazines, newspapers, and our weekly Duerbig Dirt are all examples of what type of reference material?
What are periodicals?
500
What are 2 examples that you could find in a story that would show that the setting was in the past, and 2 examples that would show that the setting was during the winter?
What are (for example) the characters talking about the current president being Eisenhower, and the characters talking about the first time the World Series was on TV in color. Proof that the setting was in the winter might be that it is snowing, and that the family has a Christmas tree up.