Grammar
This part of speech replaces a noun in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
Words spoken out loud by characters.
What is dialogue?
The repeated lines that show the friar’s cheerful nature are an example of this poetic device.
What is a refrain?
A story told by someone outside the action, describing the thoughts and actions of the characters, uses this point of view.
What is third-person?
In the sentence, “The tall students ran quickly across the field,” identify all nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions.
Answer: What are nouns: students, field; verb: ran; adjectives: tall; preposition: across?
In the sentence, "We hid under the table," this word is the preposition.
What is under?
What is First-person point-of-view?
In this poem, the poet speaks to a wandering, personified figure who represents something unstoppable.
What is Time, You Old Gypsy Man?
This part of a story includes events that create tension and lead up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
This poem gives Time human qualities, comparing it to a wandering gypsy, and creates a mood of wishing for more hours in the day.
What is “Time, You Old Gypsy Man”?
In the sentence, "The dogs bark loudly," this word describes the verb.
What is loudly?
This part of a story tells when and where the events happen.
What is the setting?
The stormy sea and darkness are described as if they can act or threaten, which is called…
What is personification?
This part of a story comes after the climax and ties up loose ends.
What is the resolution?
These are the events that happen after the climax, wrapping up the story and showing what happens to the characters.
What is the resolution?
Every complete sentence needs these two things to make sense.
What is a subject and a verb?
Rapunzel was used as an example of a familiar story so we could practice identifying plot points. List 5 plot points from that story in order, in a mini-retelling of what happened.
Class will agree on response.
Several phrases in the poem Paul Revere's Ride compare abstract things to real objects or ideas with using “like” or “as,” showing this type of figurative language…
What is a metaphor?
Every creative writing assignment in Mrs. Hawley’s class must meet this 500-word requirement. True or False?
Answer: What is false?
In the sentence, “She gave a gift to her teacher,” label the subject, verb, article, noun, and prepositional phrase.
What are subject: She; verb: gave; article: a; noun: gift; prepositional phrase: to her teacher?
In the sentence “She found a kitten,” this word shows that we are talking about one, unspecified kitten.
What is "a," an article?
This character in a story causes problems for the hero and creates conflict.
What is the villain?
This poem is mainly used to help readers remember the order of England’s rulers.
What is England’s Sovereigns in Verse?
Creative writing makes stories more interesting to read. Please add some creativity to this micro story: The turkey was walking in the field.
Classmates will agree on response.
In this poem, storms and the sea are described as if they can act or threaten the captain and crew, giving human qualities to nature.
What is “Columbus”?