Parts of Speech
Grammar
Figurative Language
Story Mountain
Random
100
Words that name people, places, things or ideas. Examples include sandwich, statue, McCook Middle School, independence, and freedom.
What are nouns?
100

Assuming we are not going to eat our family members, there is something wrong with this sentence: "Let's eat grandma!" Re-write the sentence correctly. (Hint: Add a comma)

Let's eat, grandma!

100
A type of figurative language that compares two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
100

This is the most exciting or intense part of a story, when the main conflict reaches its turning point.

What is the climax?

100
The name for details in writing that describe what is seen, smelled, heard, tasted, or touched.
What are sensory details?
200
This type of noun names specific people, places, or things. Give two examples.
What are proper nouns?
200

(NOT GRAMMAR) This is a sentence, usually in the introduction, that clearly states the main argument or point of an essay."

What is a thesis?

200
This type of figurative language is giving the qualities of a person to a nonhuman object or animal. Here are two examples: "My computer died!" and "The stars danced in the midnight sky."
What is personification?
200
We use story mountains as an outline for this type of writing. (Expository, narrative, or persuasive?)
What is narrative writing?
200
An onomatopoeia that is commonly attributed to cats, but sometimes in 6th grade writing class we find cows saying it, too.
What is "meow"?
300

"These words and phrases—like however, therefore, and for example—help connect ideas smoothly in a paragraph."

What are transition words?

300

What is wrong with this sentence:

"The dog chased it’s tail."

Correct sentence: "The dog chased its tail."

300

An example of this type of figurative language is: "The classroom was a zoo."

What is a metaphor?

300
The name for the ending of a story, in which all of the loose ends are "tied up".
What is the resolution?
300

"This Roald Dahl novel tells the story of a boy who grows a giant, oversized fruit"

What is James and the Giant Peach?

400
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun. Identify two examples in the following sentence: The grass was damp after the light rain.
What is an adjective? What are "damp" and "light"?
400
Use "there", "their", and "they're" correctly in a sentence. [100 bonus points for using all three words correctly in a single sentence]
400
Words that imitate sounds. Examples are "buzz", "meow", and "boom". [300 bonus points for spelling the word correctly]
What are onomatopoeias?
400
The five parts of the "story mountain", in order.
What are the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
400
The name for conversations in writing, usually separated from the rest of the text with quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
500

These are words that replace nouns, such as "he", "she", and "it".

What are pronouns?

500
The name for words that sound alike but have different meanings. An example is their, they're, and there.
What is a homophone?
500
"It's raining cats and dogs!" and "Oh no! You spilled the beans!" are both examples of this type of figurative language.
What are idioms?
500

The name for the beginning of a story, in which the characters and setting are introduced.

What is the exposition? (Setting also counts)

500
The name for repetition of same sounds at the beginning of words. Write a sentence that is an example.
What is alliteration?
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