Grammar
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
Giving human qualities to a non-human object.
What is personification?
What is another phrase for the main idea of a passage?
What is the central idea?
In the short story "Banana Tree", what was the main characters name?
Who is Gustus?
The main idea can be found in the first paragraph and where else?
What is the Title?
An action word.
What is a verb?
In the short story "There will come soft rain" by Ray Bradbury , what main object was being personified?
What is a house?
An inference is made up of evidence +__________?
What is reasoning?
What does the C stand for in the R.A.C.E strategy?
What is Cite?
What is the last paragraph of a passage called?
What is a conclusion?
These are used to describe nouns.
ex. beautiful, small, big
What is an adjective?
A comparison of two things using "like' or "as"
What is a simile?
A form of language that is spoken by the people who live there.
Dialect
In a poem what are the group of lines arranged together called.
What is a stanza?
When reading this short phrase is the connotation negative of positive?
To save money my mom is very cheap when shopping for clothes.
What is negative connotation?
What word is a verb in this sentence?
We went running towards the slide at the park.
What is running?
In the sentence below identify what is being personified.
As the clouds cried, rain fell down.
What are clouds?
It is the "mood" in a piece of writing. Ex. Is the story sound happy,sad, upbeat, mournful.
What is tone?
What is our school mascot?
What is a Warrior?
When identifying the theme of a passage, you are asking to look for what?
What is the message?
This type of noun must always be capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
What is a metaphor?
This is the type of text structure where two things are being shown and similarities and differences are being identified.
ex. Venn Diagram.
What is compare and contrast?
Which team won the Super Bowl last year?
Who are the New England Patriots?
What is the Title of the book we started to read that was an autobiography of Walter Dean Myers?
What is Bad Boy?