Parts of Speech
Words that name people, places, things, or ideas.
What are nouns?
An affix attached to the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix?
Every sentence should begin with one of these.
What is a capital letter?
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Mr. Weber went to this Virginia university.
What is JMU?
Words that replace nouns.
What are pronouns?
A statement that is intended to disprove another statement.
What is a rebuttal?
The past-tense of the word “think.”
What is thought?
A direct comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The three school colors.
What are blue, gray, and yellow.
Words that express actions or states of being.
What are verbs?
An affix attached to the end of a word.
What is a suffix?
These are used to show the exact words someone else said or wrote.
What are quotation marks?
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
The street address of Dogwood Middle School.
What is 1701 Floyd Avenue?
Words that describe nouns.
What are adjectives?
The author's opinion on the topic.
What is Author's Point of View?
Identify the error in the following sentence: The banker asked the employee to put the money bags over their.
What is "their" should be "there"?
This poetic element is the beat or pattern and helps the reader feel the pace and sense the poem’s mood.
What is rhythm?
The 2024-2025 Dogwood Softball team went this during the regular season.
What is undefeated?
Words that connect words, phrases, or clauses.
What are conjunctions?
This is the practice of unfairly refusing to give loans or insurance to people because they live in areas thought to be a poor financial risk.
What is redlining?
Identify the error in the following sentence: After the final bell rang the students rushed out of the classroom.
What is there should be a comma after the word "rang"? (After the final bell rang, the students rushed out of the classroom.)
Words that imitate the natural sounds of something.
What is onomatopoeia?
RPS serves approximately this many students.
What is the 22,000?