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Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
Capitalization
Critical Thinking
Character Analysis
100
A comparison between 2 different people/things to show how they are similar using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile.
100
books
What are nouns.
100
The part of any sentence you always capitalize.
What is the first word?
100
The sport that allows the author of Diary 11 to feel successful.
What is baseball?
100
The reason the author in Diary 7 get jumped.
What is gang initiation.
200
A figure of speech that literally says one thing, but figuratively means something very different.
What is an idiom?
200
Describes a noun. As in, "difficult" benchmark.
What is an adjective.
200
The teacher who inspires her students to write.
Who is Ms. Gruwell?
200
The character the author of Diary 13 relates closely to.
Who is Rufus?
200
The form of art that gives an author "ganas".
What is tagging?
300
The school is just like a city and the city is just like prison.
What is a simile.
300
The brain break starts "tomorrow."
What is an adverb.
300
The common noun is school. The ____________ is King-Chavez Preparatory Academy.
What is a proper noun?
300
What little wanna-bes demand at Wilson instead of earning?
What is respect?
300
The reason many students at Wilson decided to stage a walk-out?
What is Proposition 187?
400
The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.
What is a metaphor.
400
Replace the word in quotation marks with the correct part of speech. The students forgot to push in the "students" chairs before they left class.
What is their.
400
The name of the documentary the students watch in Diary 13.
What is Hoop Dreams?
400
His mother won't do anything and his father is too tired to lecture him.
Why the author of Diary 9 does not worry if he's caught tagging?
400
An adjective used to describe an academic problem the author suffers from in Diary 11.
What is dyslexic.
500
To be one card short of a deck
What is an idiom.
500
The adjective used to describe juvenile hall in Diary 12.
What is scary.
500
The class many of Ms. Gruwell's students prove isn't the only class filled with the gifted and talented.
What is Distinguished Scholars?
500
Attempted to ban undocumented immigrants from utilizing education and healthcare
What is Proposition 187?
500
The metaphor the author uses in Diary 12 to describe his feelings of being in juvenile hall.
What is a caged animal?