Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a Noun?
A word that means the opposite of "happy."
What is sad?
This tells you who or what a story is about.
What is the main character?
This is the first sentence in a paragraph that tells what the paragraph is about.
What is a topic sentence?
“The clouds were cotton balls in the sky” is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
This describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
What’s a word that means “very big”?
What is enormous?
This tells what a story is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
This kind of sentence tells something and ends with a period.
What is a declarative sentence?
“She was as fast as a cheetah” is an example of this.
What is a simile?
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
What do we call a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently?
What are homophones?
This is the problem the main character faces.
What is the conflict?
A complete sentence needs these two things.
What are a subject and a predicate?
Giving human traits to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
These words show action or state of being.
What are Verbs?
A word that means “to look at something closely.”
What is examine?
When a story is told by a narrator who uses “I,” what is the point of view?
What is first person?
These are the steps in the writing process (list 3).
What are prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing?
Words like “bang,” “buzz,” or “crash.”
What is onomatopoeia?
These words show the relationship between a noun and another word (like in, on, under).
What are prepositions?
A word that means “showing great bravery.”
What is courageous?
These are clues in the text that help you figure out the meaning of a word.
What are context clues?
What do you call writing that tells a story?
What is narrative writing?
An exaggeration like “I’ve told you a million times!”
What is hyperbole?