Figurative
Language
Language
This type of figurative language compares two similar things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
This is the first book in the Percy Jackson series.
What is The Lightning Thief?
J.K Rowling worked some magic when making movies from this series of books.
What is Harry Potter?
This punctuation mark belongs at the end of a declarative or imperative sentence.
What is a period?
This short story and poem writer lived in Philadelphia and Baltimore (where he famously wrote "The Raven")
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This is the type of figurative language used here: "The surface of the lake is a pane of glass."
What is a metaphor?
Angie Thomas titled this book for a famous 2PAC song
What is The Hate U Give?
Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey starred in this film adaptation of a classic Alice Walker novel.
What is The Color Purple?
A collection of sentences that all relate to a topic sentence are in groups called these.
What is a paragraph?
Going way back to Elizabethan England, he is called the Bard of Avon for his exquisite poetic plays performed at the Globe theatre.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This type of figurative language gives humanoid qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
What is personification?
In this classic tale, a warrior named Okonkwo struggles with his anger when Dutch colonists invade his Nigerian village.
What is Things Fall Apart?
This novel series detailing the love story of vampires Bella Swan and Edward Cullen was turned into several films between 2005 and 2015
What is Twilight?
The kinds of words are usually actions but also include "be," "am," and "is"
What are verbs?
This is the author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
Who is Lewis Carrol?
This type of figurative language combines two seemingly opposite things, for example a "silent scream."
What is an oxymoron?
This book drew a lot of attention when it inspired Mark David Chapman to kill The Beatles singer John Lennon in 1980
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
Netflix created this drama miniseries based on Sara Burns' book The Central Park Five false 1989 convictions of the Central Park five.
What is When They See Us?
This punctuation mark can be used to separate two independent clauses when the connection bewteen them is clear or when the second clarifies the first.
What is a semicolon?
This writer is known for being a part of the beat generation and using a stream-of-consciousness method to write about his adventures "On the Road."
Who is Jack Kerouac?
This is the type of figurative language used here: "Come rain or shine, the show must go on"
What are idioms?
In this famous 1954 novel, characters including Piggy, Jack, and Ralph are young boys stranded on an island who must organize and govern themselves.
What is Lord of the Flies?
The Others (2001), The Turning (2020), and The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) are all screen adaptations of this Henry James novel.
What is The Turn of the Screw?
While semantics refers to the meaning that words carry, this refers to how they are structured into sentences.
What is syntax?
She wrote the gorgeous memoir Just Kids about living in New York City in the 1960s with her best friend and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. (I am also a fan of her punk rock music on the album "Horses.")
Who is Patti Smith?