Figurative Language
Order of Adjectives
Tenses
Transitions & Clauses
Author's Purposes
100

Gerald's foot smelled like a science experiment.

Simile

100

Put these words in order:

green, rug, oval,

Oval green rug

100

Rejuvenate (past simple regular)

 Rejuvenated

100

Although I am happy (Classify Clause)

Dependent (Begins with a subordinate clause)

100

An instruction manual

To inform

200

A man slathered peanut butter on his knuckles and punched his neighbor with the force of a locomotive.

Hyperbole

200

Running, Amazing, Shoes, New,

Amazing new running shoes

200

Glue (past progressive/continuous)

Was gluing

200

After work, I went for a walk (Classify Clause)

Independent Clause

200

Lord of Flies

To entertain

300

The broccoli sat alone on the edge of the plate, thinking, ‘why does everyone hate me?’

Personification

300
ball, purple, unpleasant, massive, bowling

Unpleasant massive purple bowling ball

300

Fill in the blank with an appropriate verb:


The mailman was ______ off the letters when the dog began to chase him.

dropping, or some closely related and reasonable synonym in the past progressive/continuous

300

What type of transition is:

Consequently

Cause and Effect

300

The Genre of Horror

To entertain

400

She flew around her hive and buzzed, 'to be or not to be?' (2)

Onomatopoeia, Personification

400

Metal, shopping, old, cart, fantatic, small

Fantastic small old metal shopping cart

400

They thought about it.

They were thinking about it.
400

She ran away from home but she came back the next day.

Compound Sentence

400

Instead of thinking that way you should think this way

To persuade

500

Chris P Bacon oinked loud enough for the whole town to hear him. (2)

Onomatopoeia, Hyperbole

500

OSASCOMP...What does each letter stand for?

Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Color, Origin, Material, Purpose

500

The chicken tenders that he swallowed wholly were ________ (constipate) his stomach.

Constipating

500

After we left the theater and my friends got out of class, we went into the city to watch the firework display. (Classify Sentence)

Complex Sentence

500
While Benjamin Franklin may have been best known as an inventor and one of the founding fathers of the U.S., he collaborated much with the British government before the war of American Independence and was at one point a colonel in the British army who partook in skirmishes against the French and Indians

To inform