Literary Devices
What is a noun?
A person, place or thing.
What is the smallest province in Canada?
What is PEI
An instrument most elementary schools introduce children to?
What is a recorder
How many syllables are there in the word:
HALLOWEEN
What are 3
How many inches in a foot?
What are 12
What is a Hyperbole?
An extravagant exaggeration.
Eg: I cried a river lastnight.
Eg: I feel like I ate a cow!
Name the 5 distinct regions of Canada
What are:
West Coast
Central Canada
Northern Territories
Prairie Provinces
Atlantic Provinces
Similar to a guitar but different in its structure and strings. What is this instrument?
What is a BANJO
4-6 strings but generally a five string, used in bluegrass music.
Jack O Lanterns used to be made from onions: true or false?
FALSE
Infact, they used to be made from turnips or potatoes.
Who was the inventor of the lightbulb?
Who was Thomas Edison
What is Alliteration?
The repitition of syllable/initial consonant sounds.
Eg: Wine Wednesday!
What is the largest landform out of the 7 landforms in Canada?
What is the Canadian Shield.
A percussion instrument in the form of a hollow gourd or gourd-shaped container filled with dried beans or similar objects. You shake them...
What are maracas
Name 5 chocolate treats a child may receive on Halloween.
Smarties, snickers, reese peanut butter cups, mars, oh henry, m&m's, caramilk, aero, coffee crisp, to name a few...
Name the 7 colours of the RAINBOW. We just completed our rainbow themed fridays.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
What is a simile?
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another.
Eg: Crazy like a fox.
Name the 4 states in the US that start with W
What are:
Wyoming
Wisconsin
Washington
West Virginia
Comprised of two violins, one viola and one cello.
What am I referred to as?
What is a STRING QUARTET
The name of the Gothic novel about a scientist who creates a monster?
Who is FRANKENSTEIN, by Mary Shelley
Finish the saying:
"See you later alligator"...
What is "in a while crocodile"
An antonym is the opposite of something. Give an example of one.
Tall - short
Quiet - noisy
Hot - cold
What does a paleontologist study?
What are FOSSILS
The sackbut was an early form of which musical instrument?
What is a TROMBONE.
Bathurst, New Brunswick put themselves on the map for not allowing children aged 16 and older to do what?
What is GO TRICK OR TREATING
It was their attempt to decrease Halloween mischief.
How many sides does an octagon have?
What is 8