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Onomatopoeias, Hyperboles, Personification, and Idioms
Similes and Metaphors
Tone and Mood
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Miscellaneous
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What is an idiom?

A phrase or saying that is not literal. 

100
What is this? "Watching the show was like watching the grass grow".
Simile
100
What is the definition of tone?
The author's attitude toward a character, subject, or audience.
100

What do tone and mood share?

emotions or feelings

100
What is a main idea?
A sentence that includes the most important part of a text.
200

What type of figurative language is this:

The bees buzzed to the flower with great joy.

Onomatopoeia 

200
How can you distinguish a simile from a metaphor?
A simile uses like or as and a metaphor does not.
200
What is mood?
How the reader feels while reading the text.
200

What is the tone of the following text?
"I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!"

Angry

200

True or False. An inference is the same as a prediction.

False

300

What is personification?

Giving human like characteristics to non human things. 

300
What would happen if you add the word "like" in the metaphor "you are a fat pig"
It would turn into a simile
300
“The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.” - Charles Dickens; Pickwick Papers Figure out the mood of this passage.
Calm, serene, non-violent, peaceful...
300

Which word accurately describes the son's tone in the following dialogue?
Father: We are going to Disney World!
Son: Yay!!!!

Excited

300

Adam's entire family just finished racing to the hospital. They scrammble to find out what floor he is on. They find out that he is on the third floor and take the first elevator up. They find his room and open the door. He is standing there quietly with something in his arms. He is smiling and his parents start to cry, but they are tears of joy. Why is Adam at the hospital?

Adam is holding his new baby.

400

What figurative language is this?

It took us forever to walk to my house yesterday. Bob and I were so tired. 

Hyperbole

400
What does "She was as quick as a cheetah chasing its dinner." mean?
She was fast
400
"Dana grinned malevolently. His teeth were nubby and yellow, like an old barn dog's. Kneeling on Roy's chest, he hauled back to hit him again." The author's ____________ tone inspires a violent atmosphere.
angry
400

True or false. 

The mood and tone of the story can be the same.

True. 

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“For many months after her father’s death she pretended he was still alive”. From this quote, I can infer the woman___________________. a. is getting on with her life after her father’s death b. is really good at pretending c. is having a hard time with accepting her father’s death d. is hoping to see her father soon
c. is having a hard time with accepting her father's death.
500

I will give you a step at the drop of a hat. 


What figurative language is this?

Idiom

500
What does "Her smile is the sun." mean?
Her smile was very bright.
500
What is the tone of the following passage: "I love shopping with my wife, slightly more than I love having my pinkie toes gnawed on by anemic alligators.”
sarcastic
500

If an author has no emotion regarding the story he is telling, his tone can be described as what?

Objective

500

Simile or metaphor? The trees are monsters creeping through the forest watching my every move.

Metaphor