Parts of Speech
This is the type of word that names a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
This is a term for using like or as to compare two different things; for example, "My heart beat as hard as a drum."
What is a simile?
When added to words like "do," "think," or "turn," this prefix means "to do again."
What is "re-"?
"I like oranges but my mom prefers apples."
The sentence above would be grammatically correct if you added this.
What is a comma?
This term refers to when and where a story happens.
What is the setting?
In the sentence "I sat at my desk and wrote my essay," "sat" and "wrote" are these parts of speech.
What are verbs?
This is a word that sounds like the sound it is describing, like "hiss," "crash" or "boom."
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What is an onomatopoeia?
This pair of prefixes mean "above, over" and "under, below."
What are "super" and "sub"?
The four types of sentence are question, exclamation, and these other two types.
What are statement (or declarative) and command (or imperative)?
When the main conflict reaches its turning point, or most exciting moment, and the characters must act to try to solve it, we call it this term.
What is the climax?
These are words like "pretty," "smelly," and "blue," which describe a person, place or thing.
What are adjectives?
An exaggeration to make a point, like, "This song goes on for a hundred years," is this type of figurative language.
What is a hyperbole?
In an essay, this is the main idea sentence in your introduction that tells your reader what the essay is about.
What is a thesis statement (or thesis/thesis sentence)?
In this section of a story, the conflicts continue as characters do things and make decisions that will lead them to the climax.
What is rising action?
These types of word take the place of nouns: for example, saying "me," "you," "him," "her," or "them" instead of people's names.
What are pronouns?
"Little ladybugs love listening to love song lyrics" is an example of this poetic device.
What is alliteration?
The suffix "ly" often turns words into this part of speech that describes verbs, like "slowly" and "happily."
What is an adverb?
This way of organizing your writing means you are giving steps or events in order, using words like "first," "second," "next," "then," "finally" and "last."
What is sequence (or chronological)?
If the narrator of the story is not a character, but describes several characters' thoughts and actions using "he," "she," and the characters' names, the story is in this Point of View.
What is third-person POV?
There are only three of these in the English language-- "a," "an," and "the."
What are articles?
This figurative language occurs when a character says or does the opposite of what you expect--like calling the Titanic "unsinkable."
What is irony?
We just learned this suffix that means to go in a specific way or direction.
What is "-wise"?
Besides a capital letter and end punctuation (like a period), a complete sentence needs these two other parts.
What are a subject and predicate (or subject and verb)?
This word describes the character or force that stands between our main character and their goals.
What is the antagonist?