Challenge 2
Welcome: Negro League Baseball
Description:
Grade Level: 4-12
Curriculum: English/ Language Arts
Keywords: Negro Leagues, Segregation, Baseball
Alliteration Game:
Figurative language is when you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning.
There are a few different ways to use figurative language:
- Metaphor: Comparing two things by using one kind of object or using in place of another to suggest the likeness between them
- Simile: A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
- Personification: Giving something human qualities
- Hyperbole: Big exaggeration, usually with humor
- Assonance: A resemblance of sound in words or syllables
- Alliteration: The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
- Onomatopoeia: Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it
Figurative Language Game show Links:
