Vocabulary Definitions
What word means a dull sound?
Thud
What is similar about all of these words: aisle, herb, island?
All have a silent letter
What word is a synonym for moved as a group?
Flocked
What do you call a group of lines in a poem?
Stanza
What word means dive, sink rapidly, or drop quickly?
Plunge
What is the silent letter in glisten?
The t
What word is a synonym for dive?
Plunge
Give an example of an Onomatopoeia.
Buzz, bang, boom, crash etc.
What word means an object that floats on the surface of water?
Buoy
What is the silent letter in knowledge?
What word is a synonym for boom?
Thud
What element is shown in the following sentence...
The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
Personification
What word means moved in a group?
Flocked
Which word has the same silent letter as the g in might?
assign, ignore, magnet, signal
assign
What word is a synonym for a floating object?
Buoy
What type of figurative language is shown in this sentence...
The snow was a blanket over the town.
Metaphor
What word means made a pleasant, repetitive, high-pitched sound?
Trilled
Which word has the same silent b as thumb?
absorb, beast, limb, rubber
limb
What word is a synonym for whistled?
Trilled
What type of figurative language is shown in this sentence...
The class was like a stampede as it moved down the hall.
Simile