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Figurative Language
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A figure of speech that compares one thing to another, using words such as "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

100

A book that lists the words and gives their meaning, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage

What is a dictionary?

100

A novel that focuses on a group of British boys on an island stranded on an island and their attempt to govern themselves.

What is Lord of the Flies?

100
Combing two independent phrases or an independent phrase and a dependent phrase to form one sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
200

The attribution of human characters to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

What is personification?

200
Page numbers to specific topics or chapters can be found in this section of most informational books. Also, one can find subtopics that are associated to specific topic or chapters.
What is the table of contents?
200

A satirical allegory that tells a story about farm animals who rebel against their farmer.

What is Animal Farm?

200
He, she, her, him, they, and we.
What are pronouns?
300

A reference that is mentioned indirectly in a text where it is up to the audience to make the connection. 

What is an allusion?

300
This type of reference book can have all information from A-Z. This is "yesterday's internet."
What is an encyclopedia?
300

A book that tells the story of the narrator's passage from innocence to experience when her father confronts the racist justice system of the rural, Depression-era South.

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

300
However, nonetheless, furthermore, and firstly.
What are transition words?
400

Two or more phrases or clauses in a sentence that have the same grammatical structure

What is parallelism?

400
This type of informational text gives facts, personal accounts, and biographical information.
What is non-fiction?
400

A nonfiction book about an individual and his journey into the depths of the Alaskan wilderness. 

What is Into the Wild?

400
One of the most famous writers of all time. His works include Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and over 500 sonnets.
Who is William Shakespeare?
500

A figure of speech in which a part of something is substituted for the whole or vice versa.

What is a synecdoche?

500
This electronic resource allows you to find information about almost any topic. You can access it through the internet and research scholarly articles and reliable information.
What is a database?
500

A dystopian novel that takes place in a world that deprives individuals of their name or independence.

What is Anthem?

500
A verb that can be used as a noun by adding -ing. For example, swimming, fishing, hating, or skiing.
What is a gerund?