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Diction
Figurative Language
Syntax
Details & Imagery
Wild Card!
100
Word choice
What is diction?
100
The following song lyric is an example of this type of figurative language: "You spin me right round like a record, baby."
What is a simile?
100
This sentence construction poses a question that is not meant to be answered.
What is a rhetorical question?
100
Imagery appeals to these...
What are the five senses?
100
What level of SpringBoard book are we using?
What is Level 5?
200
Diction can be categorized using three levels. What are those levels?
What is formal, neutral, and informal?
200
The following sentence is an example of this kind of figurative language: "Silence tiptoed into the classroom while the students worked on this question."
What is personification?
200
This type of sentence makes a command. For example, "Shut the door!"
What is an imperative sentence?
200
In this sentence, "Tumbling on the ocean floor after being overtaken by the monstrous wave, Mark unintentionally took a gulp of the briny, bitter water, causing him to cough and gag," "briny, bitter water" is an example of this type of figurative language?
What is imagery that appeals to taste?
200
Using someone's written or spoken words without citing them properly.
What is plagiarism?
300
This word describes the literal or dictionary meaning of a word?
What is denotation?
300
The following sentence is an example of this kind of figurative language: "She sells seashells by the sea shore."
What is alliteration?
300
This is the definition of "syntax".
What is how words are arranged in a sentence?
300
In the following sentence, "On the kitchen counter stood a toaster, coffee maker, and a blender," "toaster, coffee maker, and blender" are examples of this type of figurative language?
What is detail?
300
This word describes the writer's attitude towards either the subject, the character, or the audience.
What is tone?
400
The word “totes” is an example of this type of diction. E.g., “I am totes going to pass this P-DIDLS test.”
What is slang?
400
These lines from a song by Gym Class Heroes is this type of figurative language: "My heart's a stereo/It beats for you."
What is a metaphor?
400
This sentence structure has the details after the subject and verb. For example, "We reached New York City that morning after a turbulent flight and some exciting experiences, tired but exhilarated, full of stories to tell our friends and neighbors."
What is a loose sentence?
400
In the poem, "My Mother Pieced Quilts," "october ripened canvases" is an image that appeals to what sense?
What is visual?
400
The following sentence uses this type of voice: "Running towards the car, John was amazed to see it disappear into thin air." (Hint: the "voice" has to do with the verbs.)
What is passive voice?
500
In the poem “My Mother Pieced Quilts,” the author uses what kind of meaning for the word “knotted” in the line: “knotted with love”?
What is connotative?
500
Bill Bryson opens his book Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe with this sentence: "I had brought with me a yellow backpack so enormous than when I went through customs I half expected to be asked, 'Anything to declare? Cigarettes? Alcohol? Dead horse?'" This is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is hyperbole?
500
This type of sentence has the details before the subject and verb. For example, "That morning, after a turbulent flight and some exciting experiences, we reached New York City."
What is a periodic sentence?
500
Detail can give facts about a subject BUT can also reveal the subject through what?
What is a lack of detail?
500
We annotate our texts for two different functions in this classroom. What are these two functions?
What are "annotate for understanding" and "annotate for P-DIDLS"?