Which of these sentences contains the best example of onomatopoeia?
The dice clattered onto the tabletop.
We slid across the floor in our socks.
Here is a book of nursery rhymes.
It's raining cats and dogs outside.
What type of figurative language is the author using in the following lines?
I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them then blow gently, watch them float right out of my hands.
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Personification
Stanza
What type of figurative language is the author most clearly using in the following lines?
No sweet smell of honeysuckle. No soft squish of pine. No slip and slide through grass.
Personification
Alliteration
Rhyme
Memoir
What is the effect of the repetition in the lines below?
Everyone knows my sister is brilliant...
Odella has achieved
Odella has excelled at
Odella has been recommended to
Odella's outstanding performance in
The reader learns that Odella is perfect
The reader learns that the speaker believes Odella is perfect
The reader learns that the speaker hates her sister
The reader learns that the speaker admires her sister
How many stanzas are there below?
She is gifted
we are told.
And I imagine presents surrounding her.
I am not gifted. When I read, the words twist
twirl across the page.
When they settle, it is too late.
The class has already moved on.
I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them
then blow gently,
watch them float
right out of my hands.
1
2
3
4
Identify a common noun from the line below.
And for days and days, it is Christmas in November, games to play when our homework is done, Monopoly money to count and checkers to slam down on boards...
play
homework
Christmas
Monopoly
Identify a possessive noun from the lines below.
Down south already feels like a long time ago but the stories in my head take me back there, set me down in Daddy's garden where the sun is always shining.
time
stories
Daddy's
sun
Identify all of the proper nouns from the lines below.
And for days and days, it is Christmas in November, games to play when our homework is done, Monopoly money to count and checkers to slam down on boards...