The document provides examples of different types of figurative language and literary devices like metaphor, simile, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, idiom, irony, analogy, imagery, and symbolism. It then provides examples from history, sports, and other topics to test the reader in matching questions to answers.

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Language
Literary
Device
History
Library
Resources
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Terms
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Sports

4. The cat’s eyes
were jewels
gleaming out of
the darkness.

5. What is a
metaphor?

6. Like a writhing
snake, the broken
electric wires hissed
and twitched in the
grass.

7. What is a simile?

8. I had to wait an
eternity for the
file to download.

9. What is
hyperbole?

10. The burning wood
crackled and
hissed.

11. What is
onomatopoeia?

12. The wind
whispered to them
as they ran
through the woods.

13. What is
personification?

14. Take your
umbrella,
it’s raining cats
and dogs

15. What is an idiom?

16. A terrorist didn’t pay
enough postage on a letter
bomb. It was returned,
marked “return to sender”.
Forgetting it was the bomb,
he opened it and was blown
to bits.

17. What is irony?

18. A longer, more detailed
comparison of two ideas
or situations.

19. What is analogy?

20. They sat for a full minute chewing
gum slowly and watching each
other, then Jimmy released the
emergency brake and they rolled
slowly along the drying sand road
and down past the huge cleansing
dawn coming, and the pine forests
growing tall in the rising mists, and
the quickly quiet waters of eternal
spring.

21. What is imagery?

22. Flowing water
suggesting time and
eternity or a voyage
suggesting life…

23. What is
symbolism?

24. By NFL rules these
players must wear
numbers 20 - 49

25. What are
quarterbacks?

26. He holds the record
for pitching the
fastest fastball and
was nicknamed the
“Strikout King”

27. Who is Nolan
Ryan?

28. An “old school”
term for a football
field?

29. What is grid iron?

30. After a crowd booed
him, this pitcher sent
all the players on the
field to the dugout and
struck out 9 consecutive
batters in 1935

31. Who was
Satchel Paige?

32. USFL formed in the
1980s and only
lasted a couple of
seasons

33. What is the
United States
Football League?

34. The leader of the
Confederate Army
during the Civil
War

35. Who was
Robert E. Lee?

36. December 7, 1941

37. When was the
attack on Pearl
Harbor?

38. In the 1920s this
made making,
buying and selling
of alcoholic
beverages illegal

39. What was
Prohibition?

40. The name for the
reform movements
to abolish acts of
discrimination from
1955 - 1968

41. What was the Civil
Rights Movement?

42. He was the
president before
JFK that was from
Abilene, Kansas.

43. Who was President
Dwight D. “Ike”
Eisenhower?

44. A written account
of a person’s life

45. What is a
biography?

46. A list of resources
arranged
alphabetically by
author and title.

47. What is a
bibliography?

48. A collection of data
(such as articles)
accessible by
computer

49. What is a
database?

50. Resources that
provide original
research or
documentation?
(such as the Declaration of Independence)

51. What is a primary
source?

52. Organized body of
past publications
preserved for
record keeping and
research purposes

53. What are
archives?

54. Librarian that
devised the
classification
system for library
materials

55. Who was
Melvil Dewey?

56. Area of the library
with aids for
finding
information
(such as enclyclopedias, atlases and almanacs)

57. What is reference?

58. A law that protects a
published work from
unauthorized use

59. What is
copyright?

60. ILL, ISBN or URL

61. What are
acronyms?
Interlibrary Loan
International Standardized Book Number or
Uniform Resource Locator

62. Restricting access
to materials deemed
objectionable
Morally, politically or religiously

63. What is a
censorship?

64. Make your wager

65. Final Answer:
3 boolean
operators

66. Final Question:
What are
AND OR NOT?