Fill in the blank...
As the storm aproached, they heard the thunder _________________________.
What is clap or boom?
**Answers may vary**
100
We named our Pitbull "Mouse"
What is a pitbull is a dog?
100
"piece of cake" is another way to say something is _________________.
What is easy or simple?
100
Identify the words that show "Alliteration"
The ruby red rose lay on the table.
What is "ruby red rose"?
200
The teeth of the crocodile are little white knives.
What is Metaphor?
200
The sound of popcorn being cooked.
What is "pop"?
200
Buying a bus pass after getting a new car.
What is "You don't need to ride the bus if you got a new car"?
200
A bond formed through "thick and thin"
What is good and bad?
200
Identify the words the show an Alliteration:
Grace grew gorgeous grapes.
What is the whole sentence?
300
Two words that make a simile different from a metaphor
What is "Like" and "As"?
300
Sound a dog makes when someone is at the door.
What is "bark"?
300
****DAILY DOUBLE**
Find the Irony.
Jake’s mother watched him play video games and said “I’m glad you’re doing your homework.
What is "video games are not homework," she was being sacrastic ?
300
"Cold Shoulder"
What is to ignore?
300
"Don't go into the water until you know how to swim" is an example of which of the following types of figurative language:
a) Metaphor
b) Alliteration
c) Paradox
What is Paradox?
400
True or False. Similes and Metaphors tell the difference or contrasts between two unlike things.
What is False?
400
A word formed by the sound something makes.
What is "Onomatopoeia"?
400
True or False.
Irony is the marked contrast between two ideas or concepts. It is the difference between expected results and actual results.
What is True?
400
An example of an idiom.
Answers Vary.
"Second Thoughts"
"Raining Cat and Dogs"
"From Scratch"
400
Fill in this analogy:
Finger: Hand:: Petal:________________
What is flower?
500
Metaphors, Similes, Alliteration, etc are all examples of this type of Language?
What is Figurative Language?
500
The story read last Friday, was a story of a man protecting his treasure while befriending a neighborhood boy. This story had examples of Figurative Language, including Onomatopoeias!
What is "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"?
500
State an example of Irony.
Answers may vary.
"Road Signs that point in all direction"
"Going to the store to buy eggs but have them already at home"
500
Idioms are defined as...
What is "sayings that have a figurative meaning that is different from its real meaning"?
500
***Daily Double**
Similiar to "Irony," this type of Figurative Language contradicts itself but still may be true.