Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This type of phrase begins with a preposition and ends with the object of a preposition.
What is a prepositional phrase?
This is a group of words that functions as one part of speech and does not contain a subject and a verb.
What is a phrase?
This literary device gives human qualities to animals or inanimate objects.
What is personification?
This author is known for adventure stories such as Treasure Island.
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
This part of speech expresses action or state of being.
What is a verb?
This type of phrase begins with a verb form ending in -d, -en, -t, -ed, or -ing
What is a participial phrase?
This is a group of words that functions as one part of speech and contains a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
This literary device is the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning, usually with a humorous effect
What is irony?
This author was a reclusive American poet who ignored common rules of grammar in her writing.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This part of speech renames a noun.
What is a pronoun?
This type of phrase begins with a verb form ending in -ing (but not a participle).
What is a gerund phrase?
This kind of clause cannot stand alone in a sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
This literary device expresses a comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
This author of The Day is Done wrote on themes of faith, nature, and history.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
This part of speech describes nouns and pronouns.
What is an adjective?
This type of phrase begins with to + verb.
What is an infinitive phrase?
These words introduce adjective clauses.
What are relative pronouns?
This literary device expresses comparison without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
This story demonstrates the theme that pride leads to downfall.
What is "Casey at the Bat"?
This part of speech describes verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
What is an adverb?
This type of verbal phrase functions as a noun.
These words introduce adverb clauses.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
This idea refers to the extension of a nation's authority by gaining territory or by establishing dominance over other nations, and often appears in Rudyard Kipling's stories.
What is imperialism?
These are the two snakes in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
Who are Nag and Nagiana?