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Figurative Language
Grammar
Reading
ELA
Anything Goes
100

What is a comparison that uses "like" or "as?"

What is a Simile?

100

A person, place, thing, or idea

What is a noun?

100

What is the main idea of a text?

The central point or message the author wants to convey

100

What two things do you need for a parenthetical citation?

Last name of the author and the page number

100

What is Mr. Stark's favorite color?

Purple

200

This gives human traits to non-human things.

What is personification?

200

A term for a word that modifies a noun or pronoun, such as "big" or "smart"

What is an adjective?

200

What term describes the order of events in a story?

Plot

200

The literal meaning of a word and the emotional meaning of a word

Denotation and Connotation

200

This movie is about a Vietnam war veteran who starts his own shrimp restaurant

Forrest Gump

300

A phrase that means something different than its literal meaning, such as "spill the beans" or "barking up the wrong tree."

What is an idiom?

300

Punctation mark at the end of a sentence that is a question

Question mark

300
This is a struggle against an outside force, such as another character or nature

What is external conflict?

300

A repeated consonant sound at the beginning of a phrase, such as "she sells sea shells by the sea shore"

Hint: NOT tongue twister

Alliteration

300

1st Person point of view uses what kind of words?

5 of them

I, me, my, we, and us

400

This statement is an exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.

What is hyperbole?

400

What is the difference between "there," "their," and "they're"

There: a location

Their: they own it

They're: they are

400

What is the word for taking an author's words and using as though they were your own?

Plagiarism

400

An object or action that means somehting more than its literal meaning?

A symbol

400

This planet has a ring!
But it's also blue

uranus

500

A direct comparison of two things that doesn't use "like" or "as,"

What is a metaphor?
500

What is the difference between "its" and "it's"

Its: it owns it
It's: it is

500

What does it mean to make an inference?

Make predictions

500

What is mood? What about tone?

Mood: The emotional feeling of a story

Tone: The author's attitude toward the topic

500

Who is Charlie Gordon?

The man in Flowers for Algernon who gets surgery to make him smarter.