Literary Devices
Punctuation
Figurative Language
EOC Strategies
Coach G's Potpourri
100

This type of literary device illustrates the time or place of a story

What is Setting

100

Add the correct punctuation to this sentence:

In the short story The City Lost in the Snow marcovaldo is one of the main characters.

What is 

In the short story "The City Lost in the Snow", Marcovaldo is one of the main characters.

100

This type of figurative language compares likeness of two things and often feature the words "like" or "as".

What is a simile

100
You should do this test taking strategy before you read a passage/short story

What is Read The Questions

100

Who is the best NFL team?

Who are THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS

200
This word describes the sentence at the beginning of a ECR that would "grab" the attention of the reader

What is The Hook

200
You would use this punctuation mark to add thoughts or list items within a sentence

What is a Comma

200

This type of figurative language is used to express an abstract idea using an item or words

What is symbolism

200

When reading paragraphs, you should add these next to the them in order to understand the main idea of the paragraph

What is Annotations/Notes
200

What is Coach G's favorite place to eat?

What is Whataburger

300

A word/phrase which is the opposite of their literal meaning

What is Irony

300

Correct and combined these sentences:

Coach G had whataburger for lunch. His breathing smelled like onions.

What is 

Coach G had Whataburger for lunch; his breathe smelled like onions.

300

This type of figurative language is when words are used to describe a sound, BOOM! BANG! POW!

What is Onomatopoeia

300
What words should you underline within this question:

In paragraphs 2 and 3, the author suggests that love is made for everyone. How would the theme of love be correlated to the image presented after paragraph 3?

What is

In paragraphs 2 and 3, the author suggests that love is made for everyone. How would the theme of love be correlated to the image presented after paragraph 3.

300

What does Coach G coach?

What is Football

400

The opposite of flashback, this type of literary device allows us to "see into the future" when reading a story

What is Foreshadowing 

400

These punctuation marks provides importance to the beginning and ending to things such as titles to short stories

What are Quotation Marks

400

This is a type of figurative language gives inanimate object "personal" features in a sense of it being alive

What is Personification

400

This book contains a collection of words that you may ask for during the test

What is a Dictionary

400

Where is Coach G graduating from?

What is UTEP
500

This type of literary device uses extreme exaggeration to make a point

What is a Hyperbole

500
Correct this sentence:

In the el paso times their was a story about the annual easter day parade. The turnout was amazing!

What is

In the El Paso Times, there was a story about the annual Easter Day Parade; the turnout was amazing!

500

This type of figurative language features two words which appear to contradict each other but makes sense of the situation overall

What is an Oxymoron

500

Before coming to school on test day, you should do this to give you the energy and focus to make it till lunch time

What is Eat Breakfast

500

This person is the best ELAR II teacher here at Irvin High School

Who is Mrs. Pynes