U6 Weeks 1&2 Sp. + Vocabulary

This word means easily carried or moved. A smartphone is a perfect example of this word because it is small and wireless.

This word means sending goods or services to another country for sale. In the image all cargo is being sent from Canada to other parts of the world.

This word means items are brought in from abroad, or another country, for sale. For example, the US gets a lot of their avocados from Mexico.

This word means to take, or carry, people or goods from one place to another.

The act or process of moving someone or something from one place to another. This word is also defined by the modes by which this action is accomplished; such as vehicle, automobile, aircraft, train, or ship.

A figurative language technique that authors use to make the main heroic characters seem larger than life is:

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

This example from "Davy Crockett Saves the World" shows what figurative language technique?

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

• pun

This excerpt demonstrates an example of personification from the text "Davy Crockett Saves the World" because...

• the comet is compared to something crazy

• this is such an exaggerated statement

• the comet is really powerful

• a comet does not laugh like a human can

Mrs. Stacy read aloud the tall tale "Mighty Kate" to the class. She read the line, "The wind and rain rage so hard that the homes shook in fear, and the trees ran for their lives". This particular line best shows strong examples of:

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

In the read aloud "Mighty Kate" a strong example of hyperbole would be:

• weeping willows weeped so hard

• she got the name Mighty Kate at birth

• as a tiny babe, Might Kate picked up her doctor and weighed him

• railroads were still new in the American south