Figurative Language
A word that acts as a sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A farmer has 30 cows and 28 chickens. The amount of legs he has is the same amount of money in his savings.
What is 2?
This describes a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
This is the amount of water on Earth.
What is 96.5%?
The branch of government that makes sure the laws are followed as they are written.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This type of language is entirely exaggerated in order to make a point.
What is Hyperbole?
A baker's case holds 826 donuts but a police officer buys 3 dozen.
What is 790?
The life-lesson of a story.
What is Theme?
This device is used to control robots in STEM.
What is a Chromebook?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria are known as this in WWI.
Who are the Central Powers?
Phrases that don't mean exactly what they say.
What is an Idiom?
A person has a dozen eggs. She breaks 4, cooks 4 and eats 4. The amount of eggs left.
What is 8?
This is who is in the story.
What are the characters?
This instrument has exactly four strings.
What is a ukulele?
This caused a large amount of people to move west when found in California.
What is Gold?
Comparing of things by saying one is the other.
What is a Metaphor?
This is the expanded form of 36.45.
What is (3 x 10)+ (6 x 1) + (4 x 0.1) + (5 x 0.01)?
It begins a sentence and ends a sentence.
What is a capital letter and punctuation?
This person was one of the most famous Jazz players.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This began in Iowa and ended in California and was considered a "race" to be completed.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Giving human traits to animals, objects or things.
What is Personification?
This is the solution to thirty-six divided by 6.
What is 6?
This text structure tells about events and explains why they happen.
What is cause-effect?
The planet closest to Earth.
What is Mars?
The "Roaring 20's" ended due to this.
What is Black Tuesday?