Vocab
This noun describes a collection of writings.
What is an anthology?
This boy is elected leader at the first meeting, or "assembly," held on the island.
Who is Ralph?
This type of figurative language uses the words like or as to compare to unlike things.
What is a simile?
Correct the fragment:
Pets the dog.
Many correct answers... ex:
Ms. Finn-Lohmann pets the dog.
This word can describe actions or words that are abrupt or offhand
What is brusque?
This object, belonging to one of the boys on the island, is used to start a fire multiple times throughout the book.
What is Piggy's glasses?
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things without the use of like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Is the following a complete sentence, or a fragment?
Sam runs.
Complete Sentence
This word could replace "drove back" in the sentence "The army drove back their enemy."
What is rebuffed?
This boy discovers the truth about the "beast" on the mountaintop, but is never able to tell the others what he has discovered.
Who is Simon?
This type of figurative language attributes human qualities to a non-human being or object.
What is personification?
Make the following sentence appropriately formal for an academic essay:
Jack Merridew does a lot of bad stuff in the book The Lord of the Flies.
Many possible right answers... ex:
Jack Merridew makes many harmful choices throughout the novel The Lord of the Flies.
In some contexts, this word can be a simile for die.
What is succumb?
This is the only character Lois Lowry says she hates in her afterward to the novel.
Who is the naval officer?
This type of figurative language uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or show how something felt, rather than how it actually was.
What is hyperbole?
What type of quote is below?
Ms. Finn-Lohmann told me that I am "the smartest student in the 8th grade."
These two nouns are similes for each other, both meaning a guess that lacks evidence to back it up.
What are surmise and conjecture?
This symbol is used to represent both hope and destruction throughout the novel.
What is fire?
This type of figurative language references something well-know in order to evoke a specific response or association in the reader.
What is an allusion?
Correct the following quote introduction/embedding:
In the beginning of the movie Frozen, when viewers are first introduced to the princesses, Anna asks "do you want to build a snowman?"
Hint: There are multiple errors.
In the beginning of the movie Frozen, when viewers are first introduced to the princesses, Anna asks her sister Elsa, "Do you want to build a snowman?"