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Figurative Language
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The year the book takes place.
What is 1963?
100
One thing an expert reader might look at when previewing the front cover of a book.
What is the title, author, picture, awards, subtitles? (any one answer is acceptable)
100
Example: Her hands were as soft as fresh snow.
What is a simile?
100
To send something out - usually a signal or information.
What is transmit?
100
Mr. Tuttle's favorite sport.
What is basketball?
200
The city and state the Watson's live in?
What is Flint, Michigan?
200
The name of the strategy when you make a mind movie while you read.
What is visualizing?
200
Example: His mouth was a broiling oven.
What is a metaphor?
200
To turn something in for someone's approval.
What is submit?
200
The mascot of Olson University.
What is a Panther?
300
The boy at school who picks on Kenny and other kids.
Who is Larry Dunn?
300
When a book reminds you of another book you have read before.
What is a text to text connection?
300
Example: They both ate a million cookies!
What is a hyperbole?
300
When a poet intentionally uses the same word or phrase over and over.
What is repetition?
300
The person's full name that Olson is named after.
Who is Floyd B. Olson?
400
The narrator of the book.
Who is Kenny Watson?
400
The five different "W's" when asking a question.
What is who, what, where, when, and why?
400
Example: The bee buzzed by the window. The word buzz
What is an onomatopoeia?
400
In poetry, the character or thing from whose perspective the poem is being told.
What is the speaker?
400
A book about a boy who commits suicide after his best friend is killed in a car accident.
What is "Tears of a Tiger?"
500
Rufus's (Kenny's friend) little brother?
Who is Cody?
500
You might use this strategy when you reread a word or paragraph that you don't understand
What is inferencing?
500
The flower sang to all of the animals in the woods.
What is personification?
500
When a poet intentionally uses the same sound at the beginning of a lot of words.
What is alliteration?
500
The number of chairs in Mr. Tuttle's classroom.
What is 27?