Figurative Language
Bang!
What is onomatopoeia?
We compared these to inferences.
What is an educated guess?
This Japanese poem has three lines with the syllables being 5-7-5.
What is a haiku?
Mr. Nozz read the poem, but this show gave a great performance of it too.
What is The Simpsons?
Mr. Nozz's given first name.
What is Mario?
You're as crazy as a sack full of ferrets at a Bolivian hoe-down!
What is simile?
This little girl got more than she bargained for when she saw a doll who looked like her.
Who is Alma?
He wrote "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day."
Who is William Shakespeare?
She was the one lost to the narrator.
Who is Lenore?
Mr. Nozz told the history of this right before before Christmas break.
What is the Santa Tracker?
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
What is alliteration?
Mr. Nozz used clips from this BBC series to highlight inferencing and drawing conclusions.
What is Sherlock?
Mr. Nozz read a poem featuring this man who was on a quest to kill his father.
Who is Sue?
The Raven perched upon a bust of this Goddess. Another name for Athena.
Who is Pallas?
This is Mister Nozz's favorite superhero. Hence, the shoes.
Who is Captain America?
These guys are animals! Animals, I tell ya!
What is metaphor?
The class played this game where two students betrayed the other three.
What is The Resistance?
Lord Byron was writing about her in "She Walks in Beauty Like the Night".
Who is his cousin's wife?
This word isn't used anymore, but if it was you'd use at parties to encourage drinking.
What is quaff?
Mr. Nozz teaches this class when he's not in school dealing with you pack of jackals.
What is Karate?
The soda machine ate my dollar!
What is personification?
He murdered Mr. Kelley.
Who is Mr. Scot?
This poem is an account of a battle in the Crimean War.
What is "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?
This is the phrase Poe used when speaking of the line between life and death.
What is "the Night's Plutonian Shore"?
This is the amount of money Mr. Nozz says he gets whenever someone eats a slice of pizza.
What is three cents?