Parts of Speech Defined
And what makes a paragraph?
Name that writer's tool.
Come to your senses!
A job well done
100
These are the 8 parts of speech.
What are noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection, and preposition?
100
For a paragraph to be a paragraph it must have all these things.
What are a topic sentence, supporting details, elaboration, and a conclusion?
100
"The wind, a real bully, kicked the trashcan down the street." This is what the author used to create this visual image.
What is a metaphor?
100
"'Crack,' cried the bat as it smacked the ball to outer space!" The author used these three writer's tools to develop this image that appeals to these two senses.
What are onomatopoeia, personification, and hyperbole and what are sight and hearing?
100
"Over the hill, through the woods, beyond the glade, under the rainbow, around the moor, across the enchanted sea, between the misty mountains, Branden, a rather crafty chap, developed a rather sinister scheme to capture the tooth fairy." This part of speech let the reader know where Branden planned and plotted to destroy a childhood tradition. These are the examples of this pos in this sentence.
What is a preposition? What is over, through, beyond, under, around, across, between?
200
By using these, we eliminate choppiness in writing. These little gems allow us to combine short choppy sentences to make compound sentences, and to add information to sentences to make complex sentence. They also allow us to make compound subjects, predicates and direct objects.
What is the conjunction?
200
Transitions that guide one idea to the next are found in this required part of any paragraph. Examples of these are: To begin, furthermore, in addition to, next, finally, last but not least.
What is the supporting detail?
200
"My car complained all the way to the auto repair shop." The writer used this tool to develop this image.
What is personification?
200
"My goodness! Ayden, a bolt of lightning, zipped across the playground, quick as a flash, to tag Amber, the sole survivor, of a rather competitive game of sharks & minnows." These two writer's tools helped you understand how fast Ayden moved.
What is a metaphor and a simile?
200
"Abigail, a darling damsel in distress, screamed a blood-curdling scream from the tall tower, and her knight in shining armor upon his magnificent steed rode to her rescue." These adjectives spruced up the nouns in this sentence.
What are darling, blood-curdling, tall, shining, and magnificent?
300
These answer the following questions about verbs: how? when? where? why? They also describe adjectives.
What are adverbs?
300
This is the umbrella top of the sentence. All other parts of the paragraph will develop and support this.
What is the topic sentence?
300
"She was so skinny she could sit on a dime and you'd still see the edges!" The author uses this tool to develop this fun image.
What is hyperbole?
300
"Arthur lasted a millisecond in the haunted house before he bolted from the front door leaving a fire trail in his wake!" This tool let's the reader know that Arthur was pretty darn scared.
What is hyperbole?
300
"Kalen, a warrior armed only with a big heart, subdued the dragon, who had held the village captive for many miserable years, with kind words and a hug." This is the simple subject and this is the simple predicate of this sentence.
What is Kalen and subdued?
400
These typically tell where and add a little setting to your sentences. They are usually part of a phrase which includes a noun.
What are prepositions?
400
This is where you restate the topic and drive home the point for your reader.
What is the conclusion (concluding sentence)?
400
This writer's tool makes the writing sound super snappy. Oops, I just used an example there!
What is alliteration?
400
"An itsy bitsy spider crawled around aimlessly on Sam's head which caused his bff Jacob to laugh like a hyena." This writer's tool was used to make a comparison in this sentence.
What is a simile?
400
"Across the rainbow Amira, an adventurous little lassie, skipped in search of a pot of gold and a few leprechauns." These are the nouns in this sentence.
What is rainbow, Amira, lassie, pot, gold, leprechauns?
500
This part of speech adds a little bit of emotion to a sentence. It is usually one or two words found at the beginning of a sentence. It is always followed by an exclamation point.
What is an interjection?
500
Without this a paragraph will read like a list and fail to provide enough information for the reader.
What is elaboration?
500
This writer's tool is used specifically to develop images that appeal to the readers sense of hearing. Consider these an author's sound effects.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
"The door moaned, the floorboards groaned, and the window curtains whispered which caused poor Ganga to leap out of his own skin." This tool was used to create an image that appealed to the reader's sense of hearing.
What is personification?
500
"Duke loves Dhruv, and Dhruv loves Duke, but the two of them are known to annoy each other from time to time because that is what brothers do." These three conjunctions helped the writer put several ideas into a single sentence.
What are and, but, and because?
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