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Figurative Language
Vocabulary
Duffy's Jacket
100
"The trees danced back and forth in the wind" is an example of this.
What is personification?
100
When the water is really muddy.
What is murky?
100
This was scrawled on one of the cabin walls.
What is "beware the Sentinel?"
200
'tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day' contains examples of both of these.
What are repitition and alliteration?
200
Don't have a heartattack in this type of plane.
What is a Cessna?
200
The narrator always put this information in parenthesis, like (Your lunch, Duffy)
What the narrator had to remind Duffy to do?
300
Example of this are 'pow,' 'splash' and 'zoom.'
What is onomatopoeia?
300
If you drop a brick on my foot, I will be in this.
What is agony?
300
This is what the cousins see from the cabin bedroom near the end of the story.
What is a man-like creature holding a scrap of cloth?
400
These are the five elements of plot.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution?
400
When I do this I form mental pictures.
What is to visualize?
400
This is what the Sentinel does when he finds the children?
What is "throws Duffy's jacket down?"
500
"He is as skinny as a toothpick." This phrase contains examples of these two types of figurative language.
What are hyperbole and simile?
500
After I eat, I will give these to my dog.
What are remnants?
500
This is the cabin they were using.
What is Aunt Alise's boss's friend cabin?