Figurative Language
This type of figurative language compares to unlike things using like or as.
What are similes?
This describes the place, time, and climate where a story takes place.
What is setting?
A person who has a short temper is known to be _____.
What is fiesty?
What is the main conflict of the book Wish?
Charlie doesn't have a family or a place where she belongs.
_________ is when an author gives an idea, object, or animal qualities or traits of a person.
What is personification?
This describes how a reader feels when reading a story or text.
What is mood?
This type of car is also referred to as a "rustbucket".
What is rattletrap?
This word was taught to Charlie by Howard to help her control her temper.
What is pineapple?
_________ are a group of words that cannot be understood merely by knowing the individual meanings of its elements.
What are idioms?
These are used to describe a character in a story.
What are character traits?
This is a dish made from lima beans and corn. It sometimes includes sausage or other vegetables like okra.
What is succotash?
Charlie and Howard build this to help them catch Wishbone.
What is a trap?
___________ is when several words in a row begin with the same sound.
What is alliteration?
This is the main problem in the text.
What is the conflict?
Her thin, ________, hair floated in the gentle breeze.
What is wispy?
What are ballet, soccer, and fighting?
________ is the imitation of natural sounds in word form. These words help us form mental pictures about the things, people, or places that are described.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is how a story or passage ends.
What is the resolution or falling action in the story?
The old man ________ about the monsters he saw in his basement.
What is raved?
Charlie decided that this name is a silly name for a girl, so she doesn't use it.
What is Charlemange?