Figurative Language
"He was as brave as a lion" is an example of this figurative language.
What is a simile?
This colorful candy has the slogan "Taste the Rainbow."
What are Skittles?
The part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
The name of Mr. Keen's Cat
Who is Scrunky
Punctuation used to sperate a list of items or adjectives. It is also used in addresses and dates.
What is a comma?
"Time is a thief" is an example of this figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
This planet is known as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance.
What is Mars?
A word that connects words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
The best character in The Outsiders
Who is Dallas Winston
How a character in a story thinks or feels about specific events
"The sun smiled down on us" is an example of this.
What is personification?
Water changes from a liquid to a gas through this process.
What is evaporation?
A group of words that can stand alone as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
Mr. Keen's favorite flavour of pudding.
What is chocolate?
An event from the past presented in the present; out of order in a story
Flashback
"He was a real Romeo with the ladies" is an example of this.
What is an allusion?
This line of latitude divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
The piece of punctuation used to show when a charatcer is speaking.
What are quotation marks?
How many teeth does Mr. Keen have?
What is 28?
This term refers to the main character in a literary work.
What is a protagonist?
"It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
This is the capital of Vermont.
What is Montpelier?
This punctuation mark shows possession or a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
Mr. Keen's favorite book
What is Matilda?
Astatement that seems to contradicts or goes agaisnt itself.
Ex: Less is More
What is a paradox?