Figuratively Speaking
Definitions 1
Examples
Errors & Edits
Hodge Podge
100

The early bird gets the worm.

Idiom

100

The main part of a word

Root

100

dis, re, in, un

prefixes

100

What kind of sentence is this?

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers then he decided he would go to work he was tired.

Run-On

100

Man vs Man, Man vs Self, Man vs Society 

Conflicts

200

Name the figurative language used in this sentence.

The wooden wagons were heavy and low-riding with loud rattling wheels, their broad planks too battered and begrimed to recall distant origins as trees. 

 

Alliteration

200

Writers use these to reinforce the main idea

supporting details

200

Glossary, Atlas, Almanac

Reference Materials

200

What's wrong with this sentence?

Charles dickens wrote the book great expectations. 

Dickens and the title of the book is not capitalized. 


200

Adjective, Noun, Pronoun

Part of Speech

300

The trumpet sang out the notes for the Star Spangled Banner.

Personification

300

Words that imitate the sounds they make

Onomatopoeia

300
Charlie's heart was pounding in his chest when he proposed to Maria. 

Hyperbole 

300

This is a.....

The boy's stomach 

Sentence Fragment (or an incomplete sentence).

300

speculate: to consider or draw conclusions about something

What might someone speculate about: yesterday's weather or tomorrow's weather?

Tomorrow's weather

400

He has a receding hairline, a scruffy beard, and a scowl like a chill wind that sends shivers down the spines of humble privates such as myself.

Simile

400

A sequence of events in a story

Plot

400

Another word for coax is persuade.

Synonym 

400

The boy went to the market.

"Went to the market" is what part of the sentence?

the predicate

400

Name the rhyme scheme

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.  

ABAAB

500

It was at the Fairfax railway station that my salvation came in the form of a ministering angel.

Metaphor

500

The perspective from which a story is told

Point of View

500

Marco's pizza is better than Papa John's.

Opinion

500

There's a grammatical problem in this paragraph. What is it?

The prime minister reports that he runs a mile every day. He said that exercise keeps him alert and focused. He also says that he’s in excellent health.

The verb tense is inconsistent. 

500

The literary term for a universal message

theme