Grammar
This part of speech is a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
Comparing two things using “like” or “as” is called a ______.
What is a simile?
Finding the meaning of a word by using the text around it.
What are context clues?
Where and when something takes place in a story.
What is Setting?
The sentence that tells the reader what an essay is about.
What is a Thesis Statement?
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
“The classroom was a zoo” is an example of which device?
What is a metaphor?
The rhetorical appeal of emotion.
What is pathos?
The central message or deeper meaning of a text.
What is Theme?
Information provided that supports a point in text.
What is evidence?
Every sentence MUST have a subject and a ______.
What is a verb?
Providing hints of what might later happen in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
Words with similar meanings are called _______.
What are synonyms?
The sequence of events in a story is call the ______.
What is plot?
The act of marking up text to better understand it.
What is annotation?
A part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses together within a sentence.
What is a conjunction?
A dove representing peace is an example of this literary device.
What is symbolism?
“Their,” “there,” and “they’re” are examples of _______.
What are homophones?
When something is not what it seems or is unexpected in a story.
What is irony?
Restating things in your own words.
What is a paraphrasing?
“I went to the store I bought snacks” is an example of this error.
What is a run-on sentence?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things is called this.
What is personification
Words with opposite meanings are called ________.
What are antonyms.
A narrator using “I,” “me,” and “my” tells the story in this point of view.
What is first-person?
An opposing viewpoint included in an argumentative essay is called this.
What is a counterargument?