Word Usage
Context Clues
Possessive Nouns
Point of View
Literary Terms
100
This change is necessary in the following sentence: They forgot that there CBA was today.
What is change there to their?
100
Using the context clues in the following sentence, you can tell that this word means "disappeared." My fear of making a bad grade on the CBA vanished after only 30 minutes of studying.
What is vanished?
100
The apostrophe goes here in the following sentence: Mr. Baker is growing a beard, but it cannot compete with Mr. Merritts.
What is before the "s" in Merritt's?
100
When a story is told from this point of view, the narrator is a character who participates directly in the story.
What is first-person?
100
This type of comparison implies that one thing actually IS another thing.
What is a metaphor?
200
This change is necessary in the following sentence: My baseball cleat is missing one of it's laces.
What is change it's to its?
200
This word means "pieces" in the following sentence: It took me nearly a week to assemble the components into a working computer.
What is components?
200
The apostrophe goes here in the following sentence: CBA weeks can create challenges for students schedules.
What is after the "s" in students' ?
200
This point of view is represented by a narrator who is not a part of the story but who knows the specific thoughts and emotions of the main character.
What is third-person limited?
200
This element of a story includes the time period, the location, and the cultural environment in which the characters exist.
What is the setting?
300
This change is necessary in the following sentence: Your not likely to win if you never try.
What is change Your to You're?
300
This is the meaning of "snapped" in the following sentence: Showing how upset he was, Dan snapped at his little brother.
What is shouted? yelled? said something angrily or unkindly?
300
When we have to add an "s" to make a word plural (more than one), the apostrophe must go here to make it possessive as well.
What is after the "s" ?
300
This point of view involves an outside narrator who knows the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of all of the characters.
What is third-person omniscient?
300
This is the order in which the author uses specific words (or the sentence structure in a piece of writing), and it can help the reader to identify the author's tone.
What is syntax?
400
This change is necessary in the following sentence: James is the person that I voted for in the election.
What is change that to who?
400
This is the meaning of "enamored" in the following sentence: Orpheus was so enamored with Eurydice that he could not go on living without her when she died.
What is in love?
400
The apostrophe goes here in the following sentence: Your schools mascot is a duck.
What is before the "s" in school's?
400
This point of view is easy to spot because of the personal pronouns, I, me, and my.
What is first-person?
400
This is the perspective from which a story is being told.
What is point of view?
500
This change is necessary in the following sentence: My grandmother has a house which is in Nebraska.
What is change which to that?
500
This is a synonym for "suspend" in the following sentence: The city council elected to suspend a welcome sign over the entrance to Main Street during the weekend festival.
What is hang?
500
We have to add this to the following sentence: The boss birthday is tomorrow.
What is an "apostrophe s" to form the word boss's?
500
Mr. Merritt mentioned that one of the worst books that he's ever read was written from this overly-descriptive point of view.
What is third-person omniscient?
500
When an author writes with a literary intent and wants the reader to learn a specific lesson from a story, we should be on the lookout for this.
What is theme?
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