Figurative Language
Vocabulary
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Refugee Qs
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100

What is a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two dissimilar things called? 

Simile 

100

Ransom 

payment demanded for release of a person or property 

100
What is direct characterization 

The author TELLS the personality traits 

100

Isabel calls her grandfather ________? 

Lito 

100

At the end of Josef story where was the setting? 

In a schoolhouse. 

200

Which kind of figurative language is used in the following sentence? You are a devil?

Metaphor

200

Suede

Leather with a soft fuzzy surface

200

Indirect Characterization 

The author SHOWS things that reveal the personality traits. 

200

How did Mahmoud and his family get to Austria? 

They march on the highways

200

Lito appeared in another characters story. Who was the other story that Lito appeared in? 

Josef story 

300

Which kind of figurative language is used in the following sentence? It's raining cats and dogs!

Idiom

300

Rapacious 

Living by preying on other animals 

300

What is THEME

The theme if a story is the moral, message or lesson of a story. 

300

Where did Mahmoud's family sleep while waiting for the ships? 

Yogurt shop

300

What did Isabel give in exchange for gas for the boat? 

Trumpet 

400

 Which kind of figurative language is used in the following sentence? Ring, Ring, went my alarm clock.

Onomatopoeia

400

Audacity 

Boldness

400

What is MAIN IDEA 

The main idea of a story tells what it is mostly about. 

400

The novel is narrated from the point of view of 

A third person narrator 

400
Was Josef ever reunited with his family? 

No he remained in Cuba 

500

Which kind of figurative language is used in the following sentence? The girl could smell the fresh lavender as she glided through the beautiful garden of delicate flowers.

Imagery

500

Catatonic 

Appearing to be in a daze unresponsive 

500

What are the four types of sentences? 

Interrogative sentence, exclamatory sentence, imperative sentence, declarative sentence. 

500

Isabel's memory of her grandmother's death mainly provides the reader what? 

More information about Isabel's family and their struggle in Cuba. 

500

Who did Josef mother pick when she could only buy one child's freedom? 

She did not. Josef stepped up and gave his sister her freedom.