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Is it a simile or a Metaphor? He was as fast as lightning.
What is a simile
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What do you call the details at the beginning of a story that tell you where and when the story occurs.
What is the setting.
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What form of Fig. Language is this? Sheep should sleep in a shed.
What is alliteration
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What was the main characters name
What is the girl
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What was the moral, big idea of The Magic Finger
What is animal cruelty, hunting for fun verse need, animal rights.
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Is it a simile or Metaphor Time is money.
What is a metaphor
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The events of a story.
What is the plot.
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A statement that does not translate literally and is a common phrase.
What is an idiom
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Where and roughly what time was this story set in, how do you know?
It is set on the Gregg's farm and between the 60-70s when women were not fully considered equals. The main character girl has no name.
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What team did the Goldeyes play at the game we went to?
What is The Saints
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What form of Fig. Language is this? I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole
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The major event in a story. The highest, most important part of a story.
What is the climax.
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What does this idiom mean? kill two birds with one stone.
What is to get two ( or more ) things done with one action.
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What is the climax moment
What is when he Greggs are shot at by the giant birds.
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What were three of the movies played on Documentary Day?
What is Lorax, The Jungle Book, Moana, Horton Hears A Who and Jurassic Park.
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Crash, Smash, Bang, Kaboom are all?
What are onomatopoeias.
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The ending of a story.
What is the resolution
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When two opposite terms are used together. Examples: The little giant, true myth, original copy.
What is an oxymoron.
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Name 3 events to the rising action or three events to the falling action.
What is The girl changing her teacher, the Greggs shooting 16 ducks, the Greggs turning into ducks, the big ducks moving in. The Greggs being proud of building a nest, the Greggs making graves, the Greggs turing back into humans.
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What was the different about the Rome and Juliet One Man Play?
What is it connected Shakespear's version with modern/current views and technology. Examples were smart phones, social media and phrases such as OMG.
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What form of Fig. Language is this? The flowers were begging for water.
What is personification.
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What do you call the events leading up to and events after the main event?
What are rising action and falling action
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Give an example of sarcasm or define irony.
Answers will vary. Not the brightest crayon in the box now, are we? hen something bad happens - That's just what I need, great! Terrific! When something happens that you don’t want or need - That's just what we need Irony is when you mean the opposite of what is said.
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This story left a cliff hanger, what is a cliff hanger and what example did the story give?
What is when a story leaves unanswered questions and the audience in suspense. The Coopers go game hunting and the girls finger tingles and she she's red.
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Programs like SLRR SLP limit the amount of what that occurs over long periods of no learning?
What is summer learning loss.