Thanksgiving Figurative Language - Determine what type.
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Thanksgiving Figurative Language - Determine what type.
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8th Grade
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Sharon Grunden
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This quiz focuses on figurative language identification within a Thanksgiving-themed context, targeting 8th-grade English Language Arts students. The assessment covers a comprehensive range of literary devices including metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, puns, idioms, symbolism, and oxymorons. Students must demonstrate their ability to distinguish between these various forms of figurative language by analyzing sentence structure, word choice, and meaning. The core concepts required include understanding direct comparisons (metaphors), comparisons using "like" or "as" (similes), giving human qualities to non-human things (personification), deliberate exaggeration (hyperbole), repeated consonant sounds (alliteration), words that imitate sounds (onomatopoeia), wordplay based on multiple meanings (puns), expressions with non-literal meanings (idioms), objects representing larger ideas (symbolism), and contradictory terms used together (oxymorons). The Thanksgiving theme provides familiar, relatable context that helps students focus on the literary techniques rather than struggling with unfamiliar content. Created by Sharon Grunden, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 8. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for reinforcing figurative language concepts through engaging, seasonal content that resonates with students' experiences. Teachers can deploy this assessment as a warmup activity to activate prior knowledge before introducing new literary devices, as guided practice during instruction, or as formative assessment to gauge student understanding before moving to more complex texts. The quiz works particularly well as homework reinforcement or review before summative assessments on poetry and prose analysis. The varied question formats and familiar Thanksgiving context help students build confidence while demonstrating mastery of essential literary analysis skills. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.A, which requires students to interpret figures of speech and understand their role in text, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.4, focusing on determining the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in texts, including figurative meanings.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The pumpkin pie was heaven.
simile
metaphor
personification
idiom
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CCSS.L.4.1C
CCSS.L.9-10.1B
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
I ate like a pig on Thanksgiving Day.
metaphor
personification
idiom
simile
Tags
CCSS.L.3.1G
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
I was stuffed after Thanksgiving dinner!
idiom
metaphor
simile
personification
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the most musical part of a turkey?
-The drumstick.
idiom
metaphor
pun
hyperbole
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Tom Turkey tended to tremble.
personification
symbolism
pun
alliteration
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The turkey gobbled loudly.
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
Tags
CCSS.L.3.1G
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
My mom told me a million times not to chew with my mouth open.
pun
idiom
hyperbole
alliteration
Tags
CCSS.L.3.1G
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