QAR
What does QAR stand for?
Question-Answer Relationships
A comparison using "like " or "as".
Simile
This country is home to the Eiffel Tower.
France
This tense shows an action happening right now.
Present
- Slaves built the pyramids
- Volunteers built the pyramids
What are the four types of QAR?
Think and search, writer and me, right there, and on my own
A comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as".
Metaphor
This planet is known as the "Red Planet".
Mars
This tense shows an action that already happened.
Past Tense
What evidence did they use to support the theory that the workers were not slaves?
- Workers were fed quality meat
- Tombs of builders found
- They found many large buildings
Use your own knowledge to determine the answer
On my own
A phrase that means something different from its literal meaning ("like its raining cats and dogs").
Idiom
This is the name of the dragon in How to Train Your Dragon.
Toothless
"They played soccer yesteday."
Identify verb tense
Past Tense
What were the names of the archaeologist who excavated the settlement?
Dr. Hawass and Dr. Lehner
Think and search:
The answer can be found in more than one sentence.
Giving human qualities to non-human things
Personification
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
Pacific Ocean
"She had left before the movie started."
Identify verb tense
Past Perfect tense
When were the egyptian pyramids built?
2589 BCE-2504 BCE
Right there:
The answer can be found in one sentence.
"The stars danced in the sky." What type of figuarative language is being used?
Personification
This city is the capital of the United Kingdom.
London
This tense shows an action that happened before another past action.
Past Perfect Tense
fifth century BCE