RACES
Unit 1
Figurative Language/ Literary Terms
Greek and Latin Roots
Correct the sentence
100

How would you restate this question:

What band is the best band ever?

The best band ever is...

100

What do you call a true story told with a plot? 

Nonfiction Narrative 

100

What is a metaphor?

Saying something IS something else

100

Pyro 

Fire

100

Correct the sentence:


My Chemical Romance has four albums which include the following Bullets Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge Black Parade and Danger Days 

My Chemical Romance has four albums which include the following: Bullets, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, Black Parade, and Danger Days.

200

Which of these is a reliable source?

Reddit

Google 

Wikipedia 

National Geographic 


National Geographic

200

What are the elements of plot? 

Exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution  

200

What is a simile?

Saying something is LIKE something else

200

bio 

life

200

Correct the sentence 

The lead singer of My Chemical Romance Gerard Way is from New Jersey. 

The lead singer of My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way, is from New Jersey. 

300

What are the parts of a RACES response?

Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain, Sum it up 

300

What is another word for word choice?

Diction 

300

What is personification? 

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

300

-ology

study of 

300

Correct the sentence: 

When I was a young boy my father took me into the city. 

When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city. 

400

What do you do if a test asks you to cite two pieces of evidence from the text? 

Write two RACES responses 

400

What is it called when words have the same meaning but different feeling?

Connotation 

400

What is a hyperbole?

An exaggeration 

400

photo

light

400

Correct the sentence: 

There house was to far a way from me. 

Their house was too far away from me. 

500

When is the only time that you would NOT write a RACES response? 

When asked to write a summary 

500

What was the theme of The Medicine Bag? 

Multiple answers. I'll tell you if you are right. 

500

What is an allusion?


Making reference to another work which is commonly known in a text

500

chrono

time

500

Correct the sentence:

I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone 

I am not afraid to keep on living; I am not afraid to walk this world alone.

OR 

I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone.