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Figurative Language
Non-Fiction
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Figurative Language 2
You Should Know
100
Words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
A story about a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
100
What the story is mainly about.
What is main idea?
100
After work, I went straight to bed. It was just what the doctor ordered.
What is an idiom?
100
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
"She is as beautiful as a rose" is an example of...
What is a simile?
200
A story about someone's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
200
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
200
He is older than the hills.
What is hyperbole or metaphor?
200
The way an author feels about his subject.
What is tone?
300
"I am as hungry as a bear" is an example of... (not simile)
What is a hyperbole?
300
An annual publication that contains information about the moon phases and astronomical information
What is an almanac?
300
The part of a word placed before a base to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
300
Those greedy weeds have starved the petunias.
What is personification?
300
The feeling the author creates in a story. What the reader feels about it.
What is mood?
400
"The chair jumped across the room" is an example of...
What is personification?
400
A book or set of books containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge.
What is an encyclopedia?
400
Enormous/Minute; Dramatic/Subtle.
What are antonyms?
400
The executives had golden parachutes to land safely after the company crashed.
What is a metaphor?
400
Three reasons an author writes.
What is entertain, persuade and inform?
500
"The road was a ribbon of red" is an example of...
What is a metaphor?
500
The main purpose of non-fiction is to...
What is inform?
500
Obtest [ob-TEST]: to supplicate earnestly; beseech.
What is a definition?
500
Jerry insisted on telling his little sister what to do. She wasn't born yesterday; she has her own mind!
What is an idiom?
500
What you should do before reading a selection.
What is read the questions?