Parts of Speech
Identify the part of speech: run.
Verb
A comparison between two unlike things.
Metaphor
This is the name given to the dead giant in "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World."
Esteban
This is the main source of entertainment for people in Fahrenheit 451.
Parlor Walls
This wizard is known as "the boy who lived."
Harry Potter
This part of speech replaces nouns to avoid repetitiveness in sentences.
Pronoun
Identify the figurative language device: The way (insert student's name) fell in front of everyone in the gymnasium was seriously funny.
Oxymoron
In "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," the people in the small American town are subjects of an experiment led by what supernatural entity?
Aliens
Who asked Guy Montag, "Are you happy?"
Clarisse McClellan
The 16th President of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
"Blue," "Tiny," and "Pretty" are all examples of...
Adjectives
Identify the figurative language device: "Some sailors who heard the weeping from a distance went off course, and people heard of one who had himself tied to the main mast, remembering ancient fables about sirens."
Allusion
Mrs. Flowers said we should be understanding of illiteracy, but intolerant of what?
Ignorance
The book Guy Montag steals from the old woman's house before it burns.
The Bible.
Correctly spell Mr. Gleason's first name.
Lazarus
Part of speech that connects words or groups of words (examples: and, or, but).
Conjunction
Correctly spell the figurative language device that is defined as words that are associated with sounds.
Onomatopoeia
The name of the woman who turned the Harlequin in to the Ticktockman.
Alice
What does the sieve and the sand represent?
The inability to retain knowledge
The title of the song of the day.
Misery Business
Part of speech that shows the relationship between a noun and another verb.
Preposition
Pun
How many children did Lester Billings kill in Stephen King's "The Boogeyman"?
Zero
What is the name of the man who appeared to be the leader of the group of rebels in the countryside after Montag escaped?
Granger
What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
13 m/s (29 mph)