Figuratively Speaking
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
Alliteration
This duet was the most streamed song on spotify in 2025.
“Die with a Smile” by Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga
“Mal” as in Malice, Dismal, and Maladjusted
Bad
This predator that hunts in packs can smell its prey from almost two miles away.
Wolf
What is the name of the half-sentence that introduces the text evidence?
Lead-in
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
This Super Bowl performer was the most streamed artist on Spotify in 2025.
Bad Bunny
“Viv” as in Survive, Vivacious, and Vitality
Life
This bird has eyes that are bigger than its brain.
Ostrich
What should be changed to make this text evidence correctly formatted? As Winnie describes why she doesn’t like being an only child, she says, “‘I’m tired of being looked at all the time. I want to be by myself for a change’” (Babbitt p. 14-15).
Get rid of the “p.”
The sun was smiling on us.
Personification
This country artist brought his “My Kinda Saturday Night Tour” to Lambeau Field on Saturday, May 16, 2026.
Luke Combs
“Commun” as in Community, Incommunicado, and Communicable
Common, public, general
Of all the mammals, this aquatic mammal has the thickest fur.
Otter
When citing text evidence what does the following indicate: [ . . . ]
That words are being cut out of a sentence
He is as brave as a lion.
Simile
This Post Malone song opens the 2018 movie “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
Sunflower
“Mis” as in Misinformation, Misconstrue, and Misdeed
Wrong, Wrongly
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of this fruit commonly grown in California.
Grape
What should be changed to make this text evidence correctly formatted? After Ocean’s coach demands that she break up with Ocean, Shirin walks home thinking about how absurd the whole situation is, she “worried that Ocean would lose everything he’d ever known [ . . . ] only to discover that, eh, I wasn’t even the great, in the end. Bad deal. He would resent me.” (Mafi 256)
The period is inside the quotation marks when it should be outside of the final parenthesis
A word that when spoken, sounds like the word it describes. (Double points if you can spell it correctly).
Onomatopoeia
This 2000s Disney Musical features the characters Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez.
High School Musical
“Im” as in Implicit, Imminent, Superimpose
In, on
This is the only type of farm animal that can sunburn.
Pig
What does it mean when you see triple quotation marks in something that’s MLA formatted?
That it is something that was already in quotation marks in the text (likely because it is something that was being said out loud as a line of dialogue)