Figurative Language
What type of figurative language is used in the following example?
"She's happy as a clam."
What is a simile.
What point of view is the example told in?
"I always look forward to my summer vacation at the beach. I like to collect seashells and swim in the ocean."
What is first person.
What type of irony is shown in the following example:
what is verbal irony.
What did Amanda give Jeffrey?
What was a book.
"school" is an example of what part of speech?
What is a noun.
What type of figurative language is used in the following example?
"I've told you a million times to clean your room!"
What is a hyperbole.
What point of view is the example told in?
"Management is very happy with the progress you are all making."
What is second person.
In Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, we know that the old woman bringing the apple is the wicked queen who wants to kill Snow White, but she does not. She purchases the apple, takes a bite, and falls.
What type of irony is the example showing?
What is dramatic irony.
How long did it take Jeffrey Magee to run to Two Mills?
What was 1 year.
"yellow" is an example of what part of speech?
What is an Adjective.
What type of figurative language is used in the following example?
"The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle."
What is personification.
What point of view is the example told in?
"We didn't want to drive so we took the train to the city and back home."
What is first person.
"A post on Facebook complaining how useless Facebook is." Is an example of what type of irony?
What is situational irony.
McNab had the greatest fastball. Jeffrey hit every ball he threw to him, so McNab went and got _____________ to pitch.
What is a frog.
"Miller's Hill School" is what part of speech?
What is a proper noun.
What type of figurative language is used in the following example?
"Time is money."
What is a metaphor.
"the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character," is the definition for what point of view?
What is third person limited.
"The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens," is the definition for what type of irony?
What is situational irony.
A group of high school kids dumped Arnold Jones into the Finsterwald's back yard and ran off. Arnold got the "finsterwallies," or violent shakes. What did Maniac do?
What was he carried Arnold to the front step. Then Maniac sat on the steps and started reading.
Manic Magee intercepted the football. Intercept is what part of speech?
What is a verb.
What type of figurative language is used in the following example?
"Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better."
What is alliteration.
"a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story," is the definition of what point of view?
What is third person omniscient.
"When the audience is more aware of what is happening than a character," is the definition to what type of irony?
What is dramatic irony.
Which of the following BEST describes Maniac?
a. timid and hopeful
b. trustworthy and daring
c. aggressive and mean
d. sad and lonely
What is b. Tustworthy and daring.
"Tomorrow morning you can sleep in." Tomorrow morning is what type of phrase?
What is a time phrase.