Figurative Language
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
These words describes nouns or pronouns, telling what kind, how many or which one.
What are adjectives?
This structure includes details to help you picture or get to know a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
What is description?
Colorful name given to events occurring on October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday?
This passenger ship was thought to be carrying weapons and was sunk by a German U-Boat.
What is the Lusitania?
Words whose sounds suggest their meanings.
What is onomatopoeia?
These words express strong feelings or emotions.
What are interjections?
This structure gives similarities and/or differences between two items, such as events, time periods, ideas, or people.
What is compare and contrast?
1st – people were laid off from work
2nd- employers decreased wages for people still working.
3rd- consumers had no money to buy manufactured goods
4th- companies were lowering their prices to entice people to buy.
5th- eventually companies failed.
What is the domino effect?
The right for women to vote.
What is suffrage?
A comparison of two unlike things that says one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
These words tell what action someone or something is doing.
What are verbs?
This structure explains why something happened and what happened as a result.
What is cause and effect?
This series of programs introduced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt focused on Relief, Recovery and Reform.
What is the New Deal?
A rail line that connected Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A group of words whose meaning isn't understood from their literal meanings.
What is an idiom?
These words join together single words or groups of words in a sentence.
What are conjunctions?
This structure presents an issue and explains how it is solved.
What is problem and solution?
He preceded Roosevelt as President of the US, and was accused of not doing enough to end the Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
A fire at this clothes factory in New York led to greater safety laws for workers.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
The trees are so high, they touch the sky.
What is hyperbole?
These words combine with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase that tells something about another word in a sentence.
What are prepositions?
This structure describes events in the order in which they happened and may includes dates.
What is sequence or chronological order?
This type of vegetation, growing up to six feet and having roots as long as nine feet, grew in the plain states.
What is prairie grass?
World War I was said to have started because of the assassination of this Archduke of Austria-Hungary.
Who is Ferdinand?