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Which poetic device is used in: “The classroom was a zoo.”
Metaphor
What is the plural of fox?
foxes
What type of sentence is: “The dog is sleeping.”
Statement
What tense is used in: “Sam will play soccer tomorrow.”
Simple future tense
What is the past tense of go?
went
Identify the poetic device: “The wind whispered through the trees.”
Personification
(accept alliteration as well)
What is the collective noun for a group of bees?
swarm
Identify the adjective: “The fluffy cat slept.”
fluffy
Add the missing commas: “I bought apples bananas oranges and grapes.”
I bought apples, bananas, oranges, and grapes.
Complete the sentence: “The children ___ playing outside.”
are
Identify the poetic device: “The water felt like an ice bath.”
simile
Complete the sentence: “A ___ of lions rested under the tree.”
pride
Identify the tense: “We visited Grandma last weekend.”
Simple past tense
What is the past tense of eat?
ate
Choose the correct preposition: “The bird flew ___ the house.”
over
Identify the poetic device: “The snake slid silently.”
Alliteration
Complete the sentence: “A ___ of players walked onto the field.”
team
Identify the type of sentence: “Please remember to bring your homework tomorrow.”
Command
Complete the sentence: “Yesterday, I ___ a beautiful bird.” (see)
saw
Change quick into an adverb.
quickly
What poetic device is used in “The angry storm punched the windows”? Explain your answer.
Personification; the storm is given a human action.
Identify the prefix and root word in misbehave.
prefix = mis
root = behave
Choose the correct reflexive pronoun:
“The boys made the treehouse by ___.”
Themselves
Replace the nouns with a pronoun:
“Tom and Sarah went to the shop.”
They went to the shop.
Find four different concepts in:
“They asked us to sit next to them in the theatre"
They = pronoun
asked = verb
us = pronoun
to sit = verb
next to = preposition
them = pronoun
in = preposition
the = article
theatre = noun