Figurative Language
Indefinite Pronouns
Perfect Tenses
Sentence Types
Potpourri
100
a comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as
What is a simile?
100
Everyone did ___________ homework last night.
What is his or her?
100
I had driven more than three hundred miles before I needed to refuel the car.
What is past perfect?
100
Mary goes to the Sun Valley Public Library every day and studies English or math.
What is a simple sentence?
100
THe main idea that is usually found in the topic sentence or topic paragraph.
What is the claim?
200
when a writer gives human-like traits or characteristics to a non-living thing
What is personification?
200
One of the boys lost ________ camera during the trip to the zoo.
What is his?
200
People have wanted to fly since the beginning of time.
What is present perfect?
200
Sabrina witnessed the convenience store being robbed while taking the dog for a walk.
What is a complex sentence?
200
You should buy AXE today if you want to be just like Justin Timberlake.
What is propaganda/ persuasion.
300
when one thing is said to be another; a comparison between two unlike things that does not use the words like or as
What is a metaphor?
300
Most of the students gave _________ mothers a special gift for Mother's Day.
What is their?
300
She will have visited Italy by the time she graduates from college.
What is future perfect?
300
The sentence that doesn't belong because it does not fit in with the claim.
What is an unsupported argument?
300
The name of the different parts or sections of a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
The roses petals fell like snowflakes.
What is a simile; compares the rose petals to snowflakes. Both fell slowly.
400
Most of the arm had lost ______ skin in the accident.
What is its?
400
Subways __________ (to carry- present perfect) commuters to work for decades.
What is have carried?
400
The pirate captain lost his treasure map, but he still found the buried treasure.
What is a compound sentence?
400
What is the author's purpose?
to inform, persuade, describe, entertain
500
Strange expressions or sayings that are common to native speakers of a particular language
What is an idiom?
500
Choose from the list the one indefinite pronoun that is both singular and plural. either, few, many, some, everything
What is some?
500
He ________ (to break- past perfect) the entire set of dishware before he figured out how to wash dishes properly.
What is had broken?
500
The team captain jumped for joy; the fans cheered because we won the state championship.
What is compound-complex sentence?
500
If the ___________ clause comes first, you do use a comma.
What is the dependent clause?
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