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Figurative Language
Figurative Language II
Nouns
Verbs
Vocabulary
100
Giving human qualities to animals or objects
What is Personification?
100
Unlike similies that use the words "as" or "like" to make a comparison, these state something is something else
What is metaphor?
100
This type of noun names a general person, place, or thing
What is a Common Noun?
100
These verbs tell what the subject of sentence does or did.
What is action verbs?
100
hard work
What is labor?
200
A word that imitates the sound it defines.
What is Onomatopoeia
200
The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words
What is alliteration?
200
This type of noun is in the example: I went to San Francisco
What is a proper noun?
200
The action verbs in the sentence: Jake jumped and ran in the race
What is jumped and ran?
200
To make
What is produce?
300
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses)
What is a simile?
300
Example: Give me a break
What is an idiom?
300
The four things a noun can be.
What is person, place, thing or idea?
300
These types of verbs link the subject to the predicate (second half of the sentence). Example: The girls looked pretty for the dance.
What are linking verbs?
300
a good result
What is a benefit?
400
An extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
400
Example: The sun smiled on me
What is personification?
400
The three common nouns in the example: A young boy found a dollar on the sidewalk.
What is boy, dollar, and sidewalk?
400
These types of verbs come before the main verb. Example: The people are entering the auditorium.
What are helping verbs?
400
the way money is made and shared
What is economy?
500
A combination of words that has a meaning that is different from the maenings of the individual words themselves
What is an idiom?
500
Example: If I have told you once, I have told you a thousand times
What is a hyperbole?
500
The one proper and two common nouns in the example: Mary sat by the fire and roasted a marshmallow
What is Mary, fire, and marshmallow?
500
The nouns and verbs in the sentence: Stan and Jan are entering the contest.
What is Stan, Jan, and contest for nouns and are and entering for verbs
500
all over the world
What is international?