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Fig Lang
Fig. Lang. Examples
RoT Vocab 4-8
RoT Vocab 1-3
RoT Vocab 9-12
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A type of figurative language where a comparison is made using like or as to describe something

simile

100
The sun smiled down at me.
What is Personification?
100

What part of speech are these words?

Sullenly

Reluctantly

Malevolently

Modifiers

100

What did Mama feel when Stacey said he gave his coat to TJ?

Outwitted, Trudged, Exasperated

Exasperated

100

Name a character who is NOT malevolent.

Answers will vary

200
Giving human-like qualities to animals, ideas or things.
What is Personification?
200

DAILY DOUBLE!

What is one example of a symbol from Roll of Thunder? Must explain the symbolism.

answers will vary :)

200

Bewildered can be a modifier or a verb.

True or False

True

"The girl looked bewildered after the cat fell on her head."

"I bewildered my students by giving them a pop quiz over material we had not covered."

200

Pensive means thoughtful.

True or False?

False

200

Which word is the noun?

Despondently

Scheme

Persistent

Scheme

300

When you describe something by saying it is something else (just like a simile but not using like or as)

metaphor

300

What is being described with a simile in this quote?

"I tugged again at my collar and dragged my feet in the dust, allowing it to sift back onto my socks and shoes like gritty red snow."

The dust - "like gritty red snow"

300

Which of these words might describe how you walk to a class you don't like?

Malevolent

Languidly

Reluctantly


Reluctantly

300

Wafted, Trudge, Lynch

These are all ____

verbs

300

Name a desolate, acrid place.

Answers will vary.

400

When a word sounds like what it is.

onomatopoeia

400
His room was a pig pen.
What is a metaphor?
400

DAILY DOUBLE

What is being describe, and what figurative language type is being used? There are TWO!

"Then it sputtered a last murmuring protest and died, its left front wheel in our ditch, its right wheel in the gully, like a lopsided billy goat on its knees."

White school bus

- personification: buses can't murmur protests

- simile - like a lopsided billy boat on its knees

400

If you were making a mistake, your friends might ____ you.


Outwit, trudge, admonish

Admonish

400

Which word has a stronger meaning?

Immobilized

or

Lethargically

Immobilized

500

A saying or phrase that can't be taken literally, but everyone knows what it means.

Idiom

500

"I have half a mind to whip them children good!"

Idiom

500

Impale, flaunt, retaliate.

These are all____

Verbs

500

Raccous, meticulous, pensive

These are all _____ 

modifiers

500

Even though not all the families were eager to joint the boycott, Mama was _______

Reproachfully - Persistent - Flimsy

Persistent