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Which type of figurative language? "I weighed a ton after eating all of that cake."

hyperbole

What is the capital of Cuba?

Havana

What is the name of Michael Arroyo's baseball team?

The Clippers

Which figurative language is the following sentence? "The stars smiled down at me on my walk."

personification

What baseball position does Manny play?

catcher

What genre would involve a murder and a detective trying to find the killer?

mystery

What can change the meaning of a word by placing it at the end of a word?

a suffix

Who, in the end, actually gets Michael's birth certificate?

El Grande

What do we call the message that the author is telling sending us in a novel?

theme

What is the message the author is sending called in a piece of informational text?

central idea

What is the name of the nice person who checks out your books in the library?

Mrs. Carteno

What is it called when an author favors a certain person or idea in his writing?

bias

What is the Greek/Latin root for sound?

phon

What burrough is Yankee Stadium in?

The Bronx

What two languages do our root words come from?

Greek and Latin

What is the Greek/Latin root for place?

loc

Which character pretends to be Michael and Carlos father?

Uncle Timo

What does Carlos do to get taken in by the police?

scalps tickets - scalping tickets

The books that are written at 7th grade level are in which color bin?

bronze/brown

In what genre would you find fairies or sorcerers?

fantasy

1 step in at home reading is how many minutes?

15

What is the name of the mouse from the Cuban song in Heat?

Misifuz

What can change the meaning of a word but placing it in front of the word?

a prefix

dWhich is the direct definition of a word? connotation or denotation?

denotation

Name 3 genres

fantasy, historical fiction, biography, etc. ,....