Lang Terms

5. Sam got “bent out of shape” when Brenna said that The Office was overrated.
8. Her cookies tasted like warm hugs.
10. I love cookies. Oh, did I ever tell you that one time I found a fly in my cookie at Subway?
11. Her feet were bricks as she crossed the finish line.
13. “She chased after him” (not “he was chased by her”)
16. Brenna uses academic _____ when she completes her AP Lang timed writings but informal _____ with her friends.
17. “He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else” as Ben Franklin would say.
18. Brenna doesn’t say Sam is short, instead she calls her “vertically challenged”.
21. The Lord of the Flies, The Life of Pi, and Animal Farm are all examples of this very symbolic kind of writing.
22. If they made her run the two mile she would jump in front of a car.
25. If Brenna isn’t home by midnight, her car may turn into a pumpkin.
26. Writing style with a realistic view of the world (ex: Robinson Crusoe)

1. The long drive, many miles, hundreds of miles.
2. The chair groaned under the weight of Pixie.
3. Dory’s scenes in Finding Nemo (hint: she makes people laugh despite the rather dark plot)
4. Brenna looks in the dictionary for the ______ of a word.
6. The words “dancer” and “ballerina” have different ________s.
7. Written work meant to teach its audience something (often with lessons on morality or politics). The novel Animal Farm is an example of this.
9. Birds of a feather flock together is an example of______.
12. Cake is to birthdays as pie is to the 4th of July.
14. This type of diction differs by location. Examples include: ya’ll and yinz
15. A character used by the author to speak the author’s thoughts to the audience.
19. Brenna got a new set of wheels for her birthday.
20. Harold needed a new job. He had been working for the suits upstairs for too long. “Suits” is an example of _____.
23. Brenna is as cool as a cucumber.
24. The runners use ______ to communicate amongst themselves.