Literary Devices Activity: Thanksgiving Escape Room (Figurative Language Game)

This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with literary devices. Given definitions and examples, students must identify the type of literary device that was used.

Included Literary Devices: Allusion, Analogy, Characterization, Conflict, Euphemism, Flashback, Foreshadowing, Hyperbole, Metaphor, Idiom, Oxymoron, Paradox, Personification, Sarcasm/ Verbal Irony, Simile, Situational Irony, Understatement

Important: (How to Make Completely Digital)

This product normally requires the printing of the questions to accompany a digital form for students to input answers. But if you follow a couple simple steps, this can be made entirely digital! Just use the following tool:

https://smallpdf.com/split-pdf

(choose "extract pages")

to extract the pages containing the questions into its own PDF. You can then upload that PDF to your Google Classroom, or something similar, so that the students can view the puzzles online.

This escape room then becomes completely digital!

Important: Please view the Video Preview (found within the thumbnails above) for an explanation on how to decode the levels.

Contents:

         ♦ Teacher Instructions with Usage Guide and FAQ

         ♦ 20 Multiple Choice Questions

         ♦ 5 Decoders for each of the 5 Levels

         ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key

         ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room

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*Thanksgiving ELA:

Reading Strategies:

♦ Character Traits

♦ Making Inferences/ Drawing Conclusions

♦ Figurative Language

♦ Informational Text Structures

♦ Literary Devices

Grammar:

♦ Apostrophes

♦ Commas

♦ Contractions

♦ Parts of Speech

♦ Prepositions

♦ Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

Vocabulary:

♦ Analogies

♦ Context Clues

♦ Prefixes and Suffixes

♦ Synonyms and Antonyms

♦ Transition Words

*Thanksgiving Math:

Grades 1-3:

♦ Double Digit Addition With & Without Regrouping

♦ Double Digit Addition Without Regrouping

♦ Triple Digit Addition With & Without Regrouping

♦ 2 and 3 Digit Addition and Subtraction

♦ Single Digit Addition and Subtraction

♦ Triple Digit Addition and Subtraction With & Without Regrouping

♦ Double Digit Subtraction With & Without Regrouping

♦ Triple Digit Subtraction With & Without Regrouping

♦ Missing Addends

♦ Skip Counting

Grades 3-5:

♦ Greatest Common Factor

♦ Least Common Multiple

♦ Order of Operations

♦ Roman Numerals

♦ Simplifying Fractions

♦ Two Digit Multiplication

Grades 6-8:

♦ Exponents

♦ Equivalent Fractions

♦ Adding and Subtracting Integers

♦ Multiplying and Dividing Integers

♦ Operations with Integers

♦ Mean, Median, Mode and Range

♦ Equivalent Ratios

Algebra:

♦ Evaluating Algebraic Expressions

♦ Multi Step Equations

♦ One and Two Step Equations

♦ Proportions

♦ Slope

Geometry:

♦ Area and Circumference of a Circle

♦ Area and Perimeter

♦ Area of Composite Figures

♦ Missing Angles

♦ Pythagorean Theorem

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♦ Character Traits

♦ Drawing Conclusions

♦ Figurative Language

♦ Genres

♦ Idioms

♦ Informational Text Structures

♦ Literary Devices

♦ Metaphors

♦ Nonfiction Text Features

♦ Point of View

♦ Sequencing

♦ Setting

♦ Similes

♦ Story Elements

♦ Theme

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♦ Analogies - 3rd Grade (not in bundle)

♦ Analogies - 4th Grade (not in bundle)

♦ Analogies - 5th Grade (not in bundle)

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♦ Analogies - 7th Grade (not in bundle)

♦ Analogies - 8th Grade (not in bundle)

♦ Analogies - 9th Grade (not in bundle)

♦ Antonyms

♦ Commonly Misspelled Words

♦ Context Clues

♦ Multiple Meaning Words

♦ Prefixes

♦ Root Words

♦ Shades of Meaning

♦ Suffixes

♦ Synonyms

♦ Transition Words

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♦ Adjectives

♦ Adverbs

♦ Apostrophes

♦ Appositives

♦ Collective Nouns

♦ Commas

♦ Contractions

♦ Helping Verbs

♦ Parts of Speech

♦ Plural Nouns

♦ Prepositions

♦ Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

♦ Verbs