Grammar Skills
This punctuation is used to separate simple lists or two sections of a sentence.
What is a comma?
Using surrounding words to understand new vocabulary.
What are context clues?
Uses a lot of ______ ________ to talk about the natural world or environment.
What is figurative language?
These are included in the writing to convince readers of the author's credibility.
What are facts and data?
Some examples are "boom", "bang", or "pop".
What is onomatopoeia?
The following sentence has an error of ____
example: "the roses bloom in May and the colors are red, yellow, white, and purple."
What is capitalization?
How the words used display an author's feelings.
What is the tone?
Many poems are examples of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
Similar to the main idea in literature, this is the purpose of infromational texts.
What is the central idea or thesis?
"The bicycle is one thousand years old" is an example of ____.
What is exaggeration?
This punctuation always goes at the end of the sentence.
What is a period?
The specific way an author choses words to present their ideas.
What is diction or word choice?
This is used in poetry to build emphasis.
What is alliteration?
Replacing unknown words with known words is a strategy for this.
What is vocabulary?
A vague or quick refrence to something considered universal.
What is an allusion?
A punctuation mark used to add on information to a complete thought.
What is a semi-colon?
The reason a passage or text is written, even the way it is written.
What is Author's purpose?
The paragraph of poetry, a collection of related lines.
What is a stanza?
______ is a non-fiction text about a person's life.
What is a biography?
This describes comparisons that do not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Every sentence has one of each.
What are subject and verb?
What an author is trying to communicate with their work.
What is theme or main idea?
The number of lines contained in a couplet.
Something used to support analysis of a text.
What is evidence?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a Hyperbole?