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 account tells the story of people that survived a plane crash in the Alps.
What is "12 Walked Away"?
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 uses words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
What is irony?
This author wrote "The Birthplace."
Who is Robert Frost?
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 kind of poem is a "song of sorrow."
What is a dirge?
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?
In The Golden Fleece, Jason lost this object while crossing a river.
This part of speech describes verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
What is an adverb?
This type of verbal phrase functions as a noun.
What is a gerund phrase?
These words introduce adverb clauses.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
This literary term refers to the writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject.
What is tone?
This is the theme of The Sinking of the Titanic.
What is "the result of putting your confidence in earthly possessions"?