The part of speech that ends with -ly and describes a verb or adjective.
What is an adverb?
The first half of the talent show was (funnier, funniest) than the second half.
funnier
This sentence is an example of what type of figurative language?
The flag waved "hello" to us as we entered the school.
What is personification
The words in the () are examples of these.
The girl had a (tear) in her eye because of the (tear) in her new dress.
Homographs
What prefix means "not"?
super
un
re
un
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings
Homophones?
Sentence, fragment or run-on?
After the baseball game
Fragment
The words in ( ) in the following passage are these: The (cute) girl wore her (adorable) dress on Easter.
What are synonyms?
The subject and predicate in the following sentence: Because it was raining, I wore my polka-dot rainboots.
'I, wore'? (I is the subject and wore is the predicate. 'Because it was raining' is a clause added to the beginning of the sentence...it does not contain the subject or predicate)
What is the relationship in which the reader is asked to relate words to each other?
ex.
quick is to fast as skinny is to slim
Analogy
You use these around the words that a person is saying.
What are quotation marks?