Go Figurative
A comparison using "like" or "as," *and then* a comparison not using "like" or "as."
What is a simile? and What is a metaphor?
The text structure one might use to write a recipe.
What is sequence?
The two most common types of point of view.
What is first and third person?
The definition of an allusion.
What is a reference to something in history, mythology, religion, popular culture, literature, television, art, etc.?
Where one can usually find the central idea in a text.
What is the first few sentences?
Three types of figurative language.
Note: Your answer cannot include simile or metaphor.
What is hyperbole, alliteration, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, litotes, irony, allusion, analogy, idiom, etc.?
The text structure one might use to write a paragraph about bears.
What is description?
Second person pronouns.
Name at least three.
What is you, your, yours, and yourself?
The definition of an analogy.
What is a comparison between two things in order to explain something?
What is three?
The type and meaning of the following figurative language:
Mikal was so hungry she thought she could eat like 700 tacos.
What is hyperbole? and What is Mikal was hungry and wanted to eat a lot of tacos?
A Venn Diagram is a visual representation of this text structure.
What is compare and contrast?
Third person pronouns.
Name at least ten.
What is he, his, him, himself, she, her, hers, herself, they, their, theirs, them, themselves, it, its, and itself?
The meaning of the following analogy:
A treat is to a dog as a donut is to Mr. Oswald.
What is Mr. Oswald likes donuts just as much as a dog likes treats?
The definition of topic.
What is one word or phrase that describes the subject of a text?
For example: jumbo shrimp.
What is an oxymoron? (or What is a paradox?)
Five types of text structure.
What is sequence (chronological order), compare and contrast, problem and solution, cause and effect, and description?
First person pronouns.
Name them *all.* (There are ten.)
What is I, me, my, mine, myself, we, us, our, ours, and ourselves?
The meaning of the following allusion:
Yamilette told her friend Angie that Yaris said she hated Angie's new watch. Offended, Angie complained to Keily about how mean Yaris was being about the watch. Keily then told Yaris what Angie told her. The girls, now angry with each other for revealing things they had said in confidence to one another, got together at Yamilette's house. The four of them sat in the living room, angrily staring at the floor and waiting for the others to start apologizing. Yamilette then commented, "Oh my God. Our friend group is like 'Among Us.'"
What is just like in the video game "Among Us," the friends can't trust anyone?
A central idea is usually _____________, while a topic is usually _____________.
What is a sentence? and What is a word or phrase?
The type and meaning of the following figurative language:
Lukas was worried about how he would pay for the football uniform for the school team. But then, he realized may have put the cart before the horse. He didn't even know yet if he had made the team!
What is idiom? and What is he was worrying about things in the wrong order? (or What is he was getting ahead of himself?)
The text structure and at least two of the signal words of the following passage:
David and Jimi are friends. Lately, however, David has been talking to him too much in class while Jimi has been trying to do his work. Jimi's dilemma is he doesn't want to offend David by telling him to be quiet, but he also knows he needs to get his grade up in Ms. Choute's class. Finally, he came up with a solution: He would politely ask David to keep it down during class, but would make it up to him by walking David to his next class so they still have time to talk. Jimi tried it out the next day and it worked flawlessly. Problem solved!
What is problem and solution? and What is dilemma, solution, problem, and solved?
The type of third person point of view where the author knows the thoughts of all or the characters, *and then* the type where the author knows the thoughts of none of the characters, *and finally,* the type where the author knows the thoughts of only one (or a small number) of the characters.
What is third person omniscient, third person objective, and third person limited?
The allusion and its meaning from the following passage:
Denilson wrote a poem about school and showed it to Steven.
Roses are red,
violets are blue,
school is cool,
and so are you.
"Whoa, dude, you're like a regular Shakespeare over here," Steven told Denilson.
What is Shakespeare? and What is Steven thinks Denilson's poem is great like Shakespeare's writing was?
The central idea of the passage below:
"School is so dumb," thought Sharon. She thinks lots of things are dumb. Having to babysit her little sister, that's dumb. Not being able to go to the mall this weekend with her friends is dumb, too. Oh, and homework. That's really dumb.
What is Sharon thinks lots of things are dumb?