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 hot.
What is cold?
Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The mark at the end of a question sentence.
What is a question mark?
The main person in a story is called this.
This part of speech describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
A word that means "to make something better."
What is improve?
Saying one thing is another thing, without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
The word you use to show who owns something, like "Jason's book."
What is a possessive?
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
This part of speech shows actions or state of being.
What is a verb?
This word means "very big" and starts with the letter G.
What is gigantic?
Giving human traits to something non-human.
What is personification?
The part of a sentence that tells what the subject does.
What is the predicate?
The problem the character faces in the story.
What is the conflict?
A word that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence. "And," "but," and "or" are examples of this part of speech.
What is a conjunction?
This word means "able to wait without getting upset."
What is patient?
An expression whose meaning is different from the words' literal meaning, like "break the ice."
What is an idiom?
This tense is used for something that happened in the past.
What is past tense?
The message or lesson a story teaches.
What is the theme?
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ).
What is an adverb?
This word means "to look at something closely" and starts with the letter E.
What is examine?
A phrase that repeats the same starting sound, like "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
A sentence that gives a command is called this type of sentence.
What is an imperative sentence?
The order of events in a story.
What is the plot?