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Figurative Language
Homophones
Text Features & Expository Writing
Poetry
Know Mr. Shinn Now?
100
The sun smiled down is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
100
Spell the correct homophone used incorrectly here: He's always walking two the store.
What is t-o?
100
Typically, at the end of the text, this is a list of jargon and their respective definitions.
What is a glossary?
100
A poem that tells a story is called this.
What is a narrative poem?
100
This was Mr. Shinn's planning period this year.
What is 2nd period?
200
This is a comparison of two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
Spell the correct homophone used incorrectly here: The flee bit the dog.
What is f-l-e-a?
200
Of fiction or nonfiction, all expository is this.
What is nonfiction?
200
This is like a paragraph in poetry.
What is a stanza?
200
This is the MTV reality show Mr. Shinn watched from start to finish.
What is The Challenge or Fresh Meat 2?
300
This is a word that is a sound spelled out.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Spell the correct homophone used incorrectly here: In the shower, most people bear all.
What is b-a-r-e?
300
This month we did a pamphlet project.
What is February?
300
"maggie and milly and molly and may" is a poem written by who?
Who was e.e. cummings?
300
Mr. Shinn turned this age.
What is 23?
400
This is the repetition of a vowel sound in a text.
What is assonance?
400
Spell the correct homophone used incorrectly here: Can you feel that base?! It's amazing.
What is b-a-s-s?
400
This is the type of writing that explains something.
What is expository?
400
This is a poem written with 5 syllables in one line, 7 in the next, and 5 in the last.
What is a haiku?
400
This is the country Mr. Shinn went to in South America during his 10th grade year.
What is Peru?
500
This is the chorus of the "Figurative Language."
What is (the chorus sung)?
500
Spell the correct homophone used incorrectly here: I'm the most reel person here!
What is r-e-a-l?
500
This is one of the author's purpose of writing expository text.
What is to explain or to inform?
500
This poem was written by Gary Soto.
What is "Oranges"?
500
This is Mr. Shinn's best friend at school who drives a red car.
Who is Miss Hundley?