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Text Structure
Figurative Language
Irony
Connotation and Denotation
Mrs. Beechaum
100

A text structure in which the author describes how events occur over time

What is chronological text structure? 
100

A type of figurative language: an exaggeration

What is hyperbole? 

100

A type of irony when what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected

What is situational irony?

100

The dictionary definition of a word; the opposite of a word's connotation

What is denotation?

100

What was Mrs. Beechaum's job before she became a teacher?

Photographer

200

A text structure in which an author finds similarities and differences between the topics

What is compare & contrast text structure? 

200

A type of figurative language: giving inanimate objects human-like characteristics

Personification

200
A type of irony: sarcasm

What is verbal irony?

200

The emotions or associations connected to a word. Can usually be categorized as positive, negative, or neutral 

What is connotation? 

200
Mrs. Beechaum is a Minister or___________________?

Music

300

Because a bank has been robbed several times, they hire more security officers to protect it.

Problem-Solution Text Structure

300

What figurate language is this: "When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears"

Personification 

300

A type of irony when the reader understands more about the events of a story than the character. 

What is dramatic irony?

300

A negative connotation for frugal.

Cheap

300
Is Mrs. Beechaum an Android or Apple person?

Apple products all the way!!!

400

Many buffalo were killed, so they are now extinct.

Cause and Effect

400

What figurative language is this: "Like burn-out torches by a sick man's bed"

Simile

400

A traffic cop gets his license suspended because of unpaid parking tickets.

Situational Irony?

400

A negative connotation for slender.

Skinny

400

Mrs. Beechaum grew up in what county?

Chesterfield County

500

I prefer using Mac Computers vs. Dell Computers.

Compare and Contrast

500

What figurative language: "I do not care to talk to you although / Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies"

Hyperbole

500

If you’re watching a movie about the Titanic and a character leaning on the balcony right before the ship hits the iceberg says, "It's so beautiful I could just die."

Dramatic Irony

500

A negative connotation for peculiar.

Weird.
500

Mrs. Beechaum has been married for _____ years.

22 years