Main Idea and Cause and Effect
Parts of speech
Punctuation
Story
Figures of speech
100

One to two words that explain the subject being discussed.

Topic.

100

What part of speech is the word book used in this sentence? Please book the flight for me.

Verb
100

What is the another name for the full stop?

Period

100

The highest point of interest, the place where ideas are drawn together, an important turning point in a series of actions, or the most forceful event in a story.

Climax.

100

When you compare two unlike things using the words like or as.

Simile.

200

Why something happens.

Cause

200

Identify the adjectives in this sentence.
"The West Indian cricketers played in the hot sun."

West Indian and hot

200

Which punctuation mark is used to separate words and numbers in a series?

Comma

200

Concludes the action and ensures that all important plot lines have been tied.

Resolution.

200

The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

Onomatopoeia

300

The central point of a piece of writing.

Main idea

300

What part of speech is the word quickly as used in the sentence....."The boy runs quickly to the classroom."

Adverb

300

Which punctuation is used between Bible chapters and verses?

Colon

300

The beginning of the story, where the characters and setting are introduced.

Exposition.

300

A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated.

Metaphor

400

What is the effect of this sentence: The wasteful energy use of many Jamaicans has contributed to global warming.

Global warming.

400

Things that cannot be felt through the senses BEST describe which type of nouns?

Abstract nouns

400

To join two or more independent clauses which are not connected with a conjunction.

Semi-Colon

400

Events in a story that build up the conflict.

Rising action events.

400

A group of words having the same first consonant sound.

Alliteration 

500

A fact, a statement, a quote, or event, that backs up a key idea.

Supporting detail

500

Which parts of speech is used to express a strong and sudden feeling of surprise, pleasure, and or fear?

Interjection

500

To enclose the exact words spoken by a person.

Quotation mark

500

Events that lead up to the resolution of a story.

Falling action events.

500

Giving an object or an animal human traits.

Personification.

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