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Figuratively Speaking
Life Lessons
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This is the term for the figure of speech that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
This poetic device uses words to imitate sounds. (EX: buzz, ring, bang)
What is onomatopoeia?
100
The two roads in "The Road Not Taken" represent ____________.
What is important decisions made in life?
100
This is the formula for the circumference of a circle? (There are 2 correct answers for this.)
What is C= 2 * pi * r OR C= pi * diameter
100
The element einsteinium was discovered and named in honor of Albert Einstein during this year.
What is 1952?
200
This is the term used to compare two things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
200
"She sells seashells by the seashore." This is an example of _____________.
What is alliteration?
200
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14. This is the official time the celebration begins.
What is 1:59 p.m.?
200
This is the formula for the area of a circle.
What is A= pi * r * r OR pi * r squared
200
When Einstein died, his brain was disected and found to have lacked this. (BE SPECIFIC!)
What is a wrinkle called the Sylvian Fissure?
300
The bald eagle is a ____________ for freedom.
What is a symbol?
300
"The sky nods to him." This is an example of ____________.
What is personification?
300
This person introduced the pi symbol in 1706.
Who is William Jones?
300
This is the volume of a cylinder.
What is V = pi * r squared * h
300
The world record holder for reciting the most digits of, recited 44,000 digits in this amount of time.
What is 9 hours?
400
The sofa wept under the weight of all of the people. This is an example of __________________.
What personification?
400
This literary device uses words or phrases to describe a sensory experience. (appeals to the five senses)
What is imagery?
400
In the Greek and English alphabets, pi is this letter. (HINT: The answer is a number.)
What is the sixteenth (16)?
400
When finding pi by using the circumference and diameter, this is the formula.
What is pi = C/d (pi = circumference divided by diameter.)?
400
The famous picture of Einstein sticking out his tongue, was taken on this birthday.
What is Einstein's 72nd birthday?
500
You are grounded for the rest of your life! This is an example of a ______________.
What is a hyperbole?
500
"His mouth is a lemon twist." This is an example of ___________.
What is metaphor?
500
This is the computer the calucated pi to the 1.24 trillionth digit in 2002.
What is the Hitachi SR 8000?
500
This knight was the roundest knight at King Arthur's round table. (He acquired his size from too much pi.)
Who is Sir Cumference?
500
What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter?
What is pumpkin pi?