Figurative Language
A comparison of two things that are not similar.
What is a metaphor?
The story of a man named Montresor who decides to seek revenge against a man named Fortunato, who has insulted him. He meets Fortunato at a carnival, lures him into the catacombs of his home, and buries him alive.
What is "The Cask of Amontillado"?
Try not to (loose, lose) your good reputation
What is l-o-s-e?
What punctuation mark belongs in the blank?
"I want to go to the mall___" declared Ann.
What is a comma?
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
What is "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost?
What is symbolism?
The story follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a strange eye.
What is "The Tell Tale Heart"?
I hope your company will (accept, except) our offer.
What is "accept"?
Which word in the sentence is a pronoun?
"Did he blow out all the candles?"
What is the pronoun he?
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.
Giving a inanimate object human qualities.
What is personification?
The story is told by the little six-year-old girl Jean Louise Finch nicknamed Scout. The storyline is based in Maycomb, a small town in Alabama in the 1930s where Scout lives with her elder brother Jem, and her father, Atticus.
What is "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
She answered the letter on shocking pink (stationary, stationery).
What is "stationery"?
Which word can use the prefix "im" to form a new word?
common
fresh
patient
What is patient?
You’re seventeen and tunnel-vision drunk,
swerving your father’s Fairlane wagon home
at 3:00 a.m. Two-lane road, all curves
and dips—dark woods, a stream, a patchy acre.
What is "Deer Hit" by Jon Loomis?
The feeling a word gives the reader.
Lennie and George are migrant workers during the Great Depression. When the novel opens, they're on their way to work on a ranch in Salinas, California. Instead of going straight to the ranch, they camp by the river for the night and talk about their dream of one day having their own ranch.
What is "Of Mice and Men"?
He is (anxious, eager) to be finished with the Ferris wheel ride.
Give the Present, Past, and Past Participle of the verb "bid".
What is bidding, bid, bidden?
and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them.
What is "Having A Coke With You" by Frank O'Hara?
The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
What is denotation?
The story of eccentric millionaire Jay Gatsby as told by Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner who is curious about his very rich neighbor.
What is "The Great Gatsby"?
A brief explanation the gives the main idea of a piece of work.
What is a summary?
This class is different _______ the other?
What is "from"?
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
What is "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" by Tupac Shakur?