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true
Comparative adjectives usually end in -ER
True or False |
True
Superlative adjectives usually end in -EST
True or false |
Compares two things with the use of like or as
what is a simile
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Bow! Spat! Pop! Spat! and more
]What is an example of an onomatopoeia?
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Personification
When the writer gives human qualities to an animal, object or idea.
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An adjective that compares two things
What is a comparative adjective?
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An adjective that compares three or more things
what is a superlative?
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Metaphor
What is the phrase "Sam is an irritable old bear."
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Words whose sound suggest or resemble a sound of what they are describing.
Onomatopoeia
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Language that uses exagerration
What is a hyperbole?
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skinnier
What is the comparative word for the adjective -- skinny
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most beautiful
What is the superlative version for the adjective:
beautiful |
compares two characteristics without the use of like or as
What is a Metaphor?
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What is an alliteration?
the same initial sound or closely related syllables of a word is repeated in a sentence
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Personification
What is "the leaves danced with the wind. "
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more
What is paired and comes before an adjective that has two or more syllables (comparative)
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Most
What is paired and comes before an adjective that has three or more syllables
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Simile
What is the phrase "She is as cold as ice."
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Since the first kick flip he landedLabeled a misfit a bandit cucump cucump cucump… So he kick push kick push kick push kick push coast…My man got a little older became a better a rollerYea no helmet hell he’ll end up killing himself
What is the onomatopoeia in the stanza?
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What is "Her voice is the perfect mixture between Jesus and Fergie."
Hyperbole
What is "Her voice is the perfect mixture between Jesus and Fergie."
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more popular
What is he comparative version for the adjective popular
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best
What is the superlative adjective for good
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Metaphor
What is "The book was a time machine that transported him to other eras."
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck; If a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck;
Read this alliteration with no mistakes.
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Figurative language
What is writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally and expresses ideas in imaginative ways?
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