Parts of Speech
The teacher buzzed around the classroom like a bumblebee to flowers.
What is a simile?
What are four examples of punctuation?
period, comma, question mark, semicolon
quotation marks
This root means three.
What is tri?
The stairs creaked as I tried to sneak down them.
What is onomatopoeia?
If you have two complete sentences combined without proper punctuation (period), you have a _________.
Run-on sentence
A list of the topics, details, and supporting evidence you plan to use in a research paper.
What is an outline?
This root means holy.
What is sanct?
Word that modifies a verb
What is an adverb?
The tree danced in the wind all night.
What is personification?
This punctuation mark is used in contractions when some letters are removed.
What is an apostrophe?
A written account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
This root means write.
What is graph?
I learned to ride a bike about a million years ago.
What is hyperbole?
This mark precedes a list of things.
What is a colon?
To copy what another source has written.
What is plagarism?
This root means six.
What is hexa?
Word that modifies an adjective (example/very). The very beautiful butterfly lit on the purple flower.
What is an adverb?
This work is a piece of cake.
What is an idiom?
A type of artistic writing that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions through the use of distinctive sounds and rhythm.
What is poetry?
A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.
What is a citation?
This root means death.
What is mort?