Grammar
This part of English grammar is who, or what, a sentence is about. It is also the word used to describe the person or thing that is performing an action.
What is a subject?
If you want to be descriptive, you'd better use lots of these parts of speech.
What is an adjective?
This poetic device helps us to remember the words of a poem more easily, thanks to the repetition of sounds at the end of each line.
What is rhyme scheme?
What is Brown Girl Dreaming?
Please pick up three pieces of this before you leave your classroom. Thanks.
What is garbage/trash/rubbish?
This part of English grammar receives the action.
What is the direct object?
This part of speech describes actions that you can perform and demonstrate.
What is a verb?
If you aren't sure you wrote your haiku correctly, you should count these to make sure each line has enough.
What are syllables?
With warnings from beyond the grave, Buck visits Will in this novel by Jason Reynolds.
What is Long Way Down?
No, I don't have any of these; why aren't you using your water bottle instead?!
What are cups?
Want to sound sophisticated? Don't call it a "complete sentence" — call it a/an " _____________ ."
What is an independent clause?
We can easily add more detail to describe how an action is performed by using this part of speech. Give up? Reread the first sentence of this clue.
What is an adverb?
The song, "Love is an Open Door," from Frozen, is an example of this poetic device.
What is a metaphor?
Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, will put you in your place in this story by Kurt Vonnegut.
What is Harrison Bergeron?
A colony of these occupied the upper branches of the tree outside our classroom window and, for some inconceivable reason, Skylar tried to open all the windows! What the heck, Skylar!
What are bees?
What is a dependent clause?
This part of speech describes the relationship between objects and their surroundings. If I asked you to answer the question on your iPad, you'd likely type the word into your document (was that a clue??)
What is a preposition?
I'm as quick as a cricket, I'm as slow as a snail; I'm as small as an ant, I'm as large as a whale.
I am this poetic device.
What is a simile?
This story, by Shirley Jackson, describes a brutal elimination process that ensures a good corn harvest.
Please keep these to yourselves, guys; you can snuggle later.
What are hands?
The italicized portion of the following sentence is an example of this part of English grammar:
"Please put your bags under your desks."
What is a prepositional phrase?
So you can use a word in different contexts and it changes its part of speech? You might be dealing with one of these.
What is a verbal?
If you look for how a poem is composed rhythmically, you're probably trying to identify these two poetic elements.
What are foot and meter?
In this Charles Dickens story, "there was a traveller, and he set out upon a journey. It was a magic journey, and was to seem very long when he began it, and very short when he got half way through."
What is The Child's Story?
James, go take one of these to get your sillies out.
What is a walk?