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Define Figurative Language

100

This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."

Simile

200

This type of figurative language occurs when one thing represents something else. 

Symbolism 

300

This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.

Personification

400

This type of figurative language compares two things directly (WITHOUT using like or as).

Metaphor

500

Type of figurative language that references a person, place, event, or another text. 

Allusion 

Writing Strategies

100

Which writing strategy defines the place and time of the story? 

Setting 

200

Which writing strategy refers to the creation of a character in a text? 

Characterization

300

Which writing strategy vividly describes something using the 5 senses? 

Imagery 

400

Which writing strategy defines when what happens is the opposite of what you'd expect to happen? 

Irony 

500

Which writing strategy describes the tension in the story that must be resolved? 

Conflict 

Identify Figurative Language

100

Identify the figurative language: I have to take a million tests this week. 

Hyperbole

200

Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us. 

Personification 

300

Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"

Simile 

400

Identify the figurative language: The landscape reminded me of the Garden of Eden. 

Allusion 

500

In Tupac's poem, "The Rose that Grew from Concrete," the rose is an example of what kind of figurative language? 

Symbolism 

Writing Strategies & Figurative Language

100

Identify the figurative language: The lovely lilies looked as lively as ever.

Alliteration.

200

Identify the figurative language: “Let it be the ballot or the bullet. Let him know that it must be the ballot or the bullet." 

Repetition OR alliteration OR symbolsim 

300

Language that is meaningful, but not literally true. 

Figurative language 

400

First person point of view uses which pronouns? 

I, we, me, us, etc. 

500

Which writing strategy refers to the narrator's position in relation to the story being told? 

Point of view 

Random

100

What is the most-watched Marvel movie in theaters? 

Avengers: Endgame

200

Who has the most instagram followers in the world as of May 2023? 

Christiano Ronaldo 

300

Nicki Minja fans are called...

Barbz 

400

Which Youtube/Twitch streamer planned the giveaway in Union Square this summer? 

Kai Cenat

500

Two of the biggest artists in the world are on tour this summer. Who are they? 

Beyonce and Taylor Swift