Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Elements of a Short Story
Christmas Bonus
100

This adjective is made up of more than one word.

Compound Adjective

100

This verb that tells us what the subject is doing.

Action Verb

100

This type of adverb makes no comparisons and usually ends in -ly.

Positive Adverb

100

The people, animals, or objects that take part in the story's action.

Characters

100

Complete the Christmas song lyric: "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, _____________."

You gave it away.

200

These oranges are fresh while those oranges are sour.

These and those are examples of what type of adjective?

Demonstrative Adjective

200

This verb helps to make the main verb more specific.

Helping Verb

200

Complete the missing adverb form: fast, faster, _________.

Fastest

200

The two types of problems or struggles that the characters face.

Internal Conflict and External Conflict

200

Name one of Santa's reindeer besides Rudolph.

Acceptable answers: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen

300

This adjective gives out an approximate number or quantity.

Indefinite Adjective

300
A verb expresses two things such as...

An action or state of being

300

What is the rule to follow when making an adverb superlative and it has two or more syllables?

Add most or least in front of the word.

300

When the narrator is a voice outside the story.

Third-person point of view

300

Complete the Christmas song lyric: "Joy to the world, the Lord has come, let Earth receive her ___________."

King

400

The hot coffee burned my tongue as soon as I took a sip.

Hot is what type of adjective?

Sensory Adjective

400

The little girl rode her bike down the street this morning.

Rode is in what verb tense?

Past-tense, irregular

400

Identify the verb being described in the sentence: Suzy works most carefully at the start of her day.

Works

400

A brief work of fiction that takes readers on a quick, focused journey.

Short story

400

In the Twelve Days of Christmas, what was given on the seventh day?

Seven swans a-swimming

500

Identify the predicate adjective in the sentence:

Every student feels anxious about the upcoming test.


Anxious

500

I soon became tired after soccer practice.

Became is what type of verb?

Linking Verb

500

Identify the adverb and adverb form in the sentence:

The boy threw the ball farther across the field than his friends.

farther, comparative

500

What are the parts of a plot?

Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution

500

In the famous Christmas story, A Christmas Carol, who are the three ghosts of Christmas? (Hint: Think of verb tenses.)

Ghost of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future

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