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Speed Match Review Game

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Visually descriptive words, words that paint a picture for the reader.
Answers will vary. Descriptive language that makes writing more interesting.
Poetry uses lots of figurative language for effect.
To make the rhyme more interesting, to teach animal sounds.
Answers will vary.
Onomatopoeia
Underline all the A's.
Personification
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Songs use lots of figurative language for effect.
Answers will vary.
Imagery
Similes contain the words like or as.
Alliteration is the same beginning letter sounds, onomatopoeia are words that are spelled the way they sound.
Answers will vary.
Answers will vary.
Alliteration
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You are finished, you lost, you are in trouble.
They both exaggerate.
Hyperbole
Answers will vary.
Answers will vary.
Easy
He was not nice, he doesn't love or show love.
Rewrite this sentence using figurative language. The bee flew to the flower.
How is figuarative language related to songs?
Explain why the author used onomatopoeia in the following quote, "With a moo moo here and a moo moo there".
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
Can you provide a definition for imagery.
Dramatize "sleeping like a baby".
Illustrate the figurative meaning of the idiom, hit the books.
Demonstrate how to identify alliteration in, Alex the angry ant ate another apple.
Compose a sentence using hyperbole.
Can you distinguish between alliteration and onomatopoeia.
Contrast how similes and metaphors are different.
Compose a sentence using onomatopoeia.
Visually descriptive words.
Rewrite this sentence using figurative language. The dog jumped over the fence.
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Interpret the metaphor, he has a heart of stone.
Compose a sentence using alliteration.
An exaggeration.
In your own words, define figurative language.
Analyze what this metaphor means " You are toast".
How is figurative language realted to poetry?
A sound word.
Describe how idioms can be like hyperboles.
The same beginning letter sounds.
Sketch the literal meaning of the idiom, hit the books.
Infer the meaning of this idiom, "piece of cake".

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A sound word.Onomatopoeia
Visually descriptive words.Imagery
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.Personification
An exaggeration.Hyperbole
The same beginning letter sounds.Alliteration
Contrast how similes and metaphors are different.Similes contain the words like or as.
Describe how idioms can be like hyperboles.They both exaggerate.
In your own words, define figurative language.Answers will vary. Descriptive language that makes writing more interesting.
Can you distinguish between alliteration and onomatopoeia.Alliteration is the same beginning letter sounds, onomatopoeia are words that are spelled the way they sound.
Can you provide a definition for imagery.Visually descriptive words, words that paint a picture for the reader.
Demonstrate how to identify alliteration in, Alex the angry ant ate another apple.Underline all the A's.
Sketch the literal meaning of the idiom, hit the books.Answers will vary.
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Interpret the metaphor, he has a heart of stone.He was not nice, he doesn't love or show love.
Dramatize "sleeping like a baby".Answers will vary.
Illustrate the figurative meaning of the idiom, hit the books.Answers will vary.
Explain why the author used onomatopoeia in the following quote, "With a moo moo here and a moo moo there".To make the rhyme more interesting, to teach animal sounds.
Infer the meaning of this idiom, "piece of cake".Easy
Analyze what this metaphor means " You are toast".You are finished, you lost, you are in trouble.
How is figurative language realted to poetry?Poetry uses lots of figurative language for effect.
How is figuarative language related to songs?Songs use lots of figurative language for effect.
Compose a sentence using alliteration.Answers will vary.
Compose a sentence using hyperbole.Answers will vary.
Compose a sentence using onomatopoeia.Answers will vary.
Rewrite this sentence using figurative language. The bee flew to the flower.Answers will vary.
Rewrite this sentence using figurative language. The dog jumped over the fence.Answers will vary.