Parts of Speech
This part of speech shows an action or a state of being, and is used in sentences like "I run every morning" or "I smile when I think of them".
What is a verb?
Stargirl keeps this unconventional creature named Cinnamon in her backpack as a pet and sidekick.
What is a rat?
These nouns—the names for specific places, people, or things like "Jessica" or "Canadian"—should always start with a capital letter.
What is proper nouns?
He is the 14-year-old narrator and protagonist of the novel who loves reading, watching sunsets, and belongs to the Greaser gang.
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Who is Ponyboy Curtis?
What 3 subjects does Ms. Lafleche teach?
What is Language, Social Studies, and Religion?
This part of speech describes, modifies, or gives more information about a noun or pronoun, such as "cold", "happy", or "wrinkled".
What is an adjective?
Stargirl frequently plays this stringed instrument in the school cafeteria, often using it to serenade students on their birthdays.
What is a ukulele?
In the sentence "Yesterday, I ate my lunch quickly," this specific word is the adverb modifying how the action was done.
What is 'quickly'.
After getting jumped by the Socs, Johnny Cade starts carrying this specific weapon in his back pocket to ensure he is never beaten like that again.
What is a switchblade?
What is Ms. Lafleches favourite soda?
What is Diet Coke?
It's a word used in place of a noun or noun phrase to avoid repetition, such as "I", "you", or "she".
What is a pronoun?
To fit in with the rest of Mica High, Stargirl temporarily drops her unique persona and goes by this, her actual birth name.
What is Susan?
This punctuation mark is used to replace missing letters in contractions, like turning "do not" into "don't."
What is an apostrophe?
While hiding out, Johnny buys Ponyboy a copy of this famous Civil War novel, which they read together to pass the time.
What is Gone with the Wind?
What did Ms. Lafleche name her new puppy?
Who is Willow?
This type of word, such as "Ouch!" or "Wow!", is added to a sentence to convey emotion and is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence.
What is an interjection?
He is the high school junior who narrates the novel and falls in love with Stargirl, only to later struggle with the school's social pressure.
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Who is Leo Borlock?
Every complete sentence needs two main parts: the predicate (the action) and this part, which tells who or what is doing the action.
What is the subject?
Before he dies, Johnny references a Robert Frost poem when he leaves Ponyboy with this famous 3-word phrase of advice.
What is "Stay gold, Ponyboy"?
What room does Ms. Lafleche teach in?
What is Room 223?
These specific words, which can be definite ("the") or indefinite ("a" / "an"), identify a noun as being specific or unspecific.
What are articles?
At the school's spring barbecue—the Ocotillo Ball—Stargirl famously gets almost the entire student body to join in on this classic line dance, winding all through the golf course.
What is the Bunny Hop?
This is the specific name for a sentence that combines two complete thoughts using a comma and a coordinating conjunction (like "and" or "but").
What is a compound sentence?
At the very end of the novel, Ponyboy's English teacher offers to raise his failing grade to a C if he can write a good composition based on his own life and lessons. This is the name of that teacher?
Who is Mr. Syme?
What was Ms. Lafleche's favourite subject when she was a student in middle school?
What is History?