Parts of Speech
The teacher buzzed around the classroom like a bumblebee to flowers.
What is a simile?
What are five examples of punctuation?
period, comma, question mark, semicolon, exclamation point, quotation marks, parentheses
A type of writing to sway you to the author's point of view.
What is persuasive or argumentative writing?
quotation marks
takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
The stairs creaked as I tried to sneak down them.
What is onomatopoeia?
If you have two complete sentences combined without proper punctuation (period), you have a _________.
Run-on sentence
a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word
What is a synonym?
describes qualities or nouns
What is an adjective?
The tree danced in the wind all night.
What is personification?
If you have two independent clauses and a coordinating conjunction you need to put what kind of punctuation before the conjunction?
comma
I love to play basketball, but I don't have time.
A written account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
A part of a text in which definitions and explanations are listed at the bottom of the page. The words/phrases are notated with a small number that corresponds with the number at the bottom of the page.
What is a footnote?
describes an action
What is a verb?
I learned to ride a bike about a million years ago.
What is hyperbole?
This mark precedes a list of things.
What is a colon?
A type of writing in which an author tells a story about a significant event in their lives.
What is a memoir?
The unethical offense of copying what another source has written and claim it as your own.
What is plagarism?
Joins words and groups of words within a sentence
what is a conjunction?
This work is a piece of cake.
What is an idiom?
When you need to add information to a sentence but the information doesn't fit in gracefully, you use...
What are parentheses?
A type of artistic writing that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions through the use of distinctive sounds and rhythm.
What is poetry?
A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.
What is a citation?