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?
Kids usually learn that these types of words are persons, places, and things.
What are nouns?
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 piece of glass."
What is a metaphor?
Angie Thomas titled this book for a famous 2PAC song
What is The Hate U Give?
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?
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. (Ms. Berner's cat is named Puck for this reason)
Who is William Shakespeare?
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to nonhuman 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?
What is Holes?
These kinds of words are usually actions but also include "be," "am," and "is"
What are verbs?
This author wrote the book 1984 about a dystopian government and the control of Big Brother.
Who is George Orwell?
This type of figurative language combines two seemingly opposite things, for example a "silent scream."
What is an oxymoron?
This book tells the story of Tim O'Brien's time as a solider in the Vietnam War.
What is The Things They Carried?
Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey starred in this film adaptation of a classic Alice Walker novel.
What is The Color Purple?
This punctuation mark belongs at the end of a declarative or imperative sentence.
What is a period?
This author refused to write a sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird for most of her life.
Who is Harper Lee?
This is the type of figurative language used here: "Come rain or shine, the show must go on"
What are idioms?
This book tells the story of HeLa cells that have helped make advancements in cancer research within the last century.
What is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?
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?
Cats that have six toes are named after this author who wrote Hills Like White Elephants and The Old Man in the Sea.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?