Word Play

Match the idiom with its real life meaning.

• I went crazy.

• I am scared to do something.

• I should focus.

• I am lazy.

Which word is a homograph?

• flower

• bat

• money

• hole

Antonym of cruel

• kind

• harsh

• vicious

"Its raining cats and dogs!" is an example of what kind of wordplay?

• Homophone

• Homograph

• Idiom

Homophones are

• Two or more words that SOUND the same but have different spelling and meanings

• Two or more words that are SPELLED the same but have different meanings

• Phrases that mean something other than the literal meaning of its individual words

Wordplay is ​ (a)   or clever use of words to create ​ (b)  

• playful

• humor

• homophones

• idioms

The Whether Man's name is an example of ​ (a)   because "whether" and "weather" are ​ (b)  

• wordplay

• homophones

• homographs

• fishsticks

• i

Rate your understanding of WORDPLAY.

(Ex: Homophones, Homographs, Idioms)

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Choose the STRONGET piece of text evidence to support the following statement: The Whether Man is an appropriate name for the first character Milo's meets because... (*Hint: read carefully. Think about what you have learned about wordplay.)

• The Whether Man can't seem to make up his mind about anything "whether it's good or bad, up or down, rain or shine." (Pg. 20)

• The Whether Man often repeats himself. On page 18 of the text, the Whether Man says, "My, my, my, my, my..."

• The Whether Man can control the weather around him. On page 20, the author states that the Whether Man was "standing in the middle of a fierce cloudburst that seemed to be raining only on him.