Which of the following contains all adjectives?
A. chair, blue,school
B. he, she, us
C. hairy, beautiful, red
D. pretty, doll, basketball
C
100
What kind of figurative language is the following:
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
What is a simile?
100
What punctuation mark is missing from this sentence?
The team carried in the bats, balls and gloves.
What is a coma
100
What are two prefixes that mean "not". Give an example word using each prefix.
What are non, in, un
100
What is the term that refers to the time and place in which a story takes place?
What is setting
200
Which of the following contains all adverbs?
A. ugly, smell, Kate
B. give, jump, run
C. see, pants, nose
D. smelly, sadly, slowly
D
200
What kind of figurative language is the following:
The boat hugged the shore.
What is personification
200
You are writing a letter to your boss asking for a vacation. What is the best sentence to include in your letter?
A. I'm taking next Friday off for a vacation day.
B. BTW next Friday will be a vacation day for me.
C. I would like to take next Friday as a vacation day.
D. My next vacation day will be on Friday of next week.
C
200
Why did the Capitol create the Hunger Games?
What is to make the districts repent for the uprising
200
What is the term for the entire sequence of events that occur in a story?
What is plot
300
Which of the following contains all pronouns?
A. he, you, them
B. take, it, know
C. pretty, yellow, huge
D. slowly, quickly, ugly
A
300
What kind of figurative language is the following?
Her eyes were fireflies in the dark night sky.
What is metaphor
300
Which of the following sentences provides a clarifying explanation to this sentence?
We raced home so we would not be late for curfew.
A. I beat my brother home, so he got in trouble instead of me.
B. There was no way we were going to make it in time.
C. By this I mean, we ran super fast so we would not get in trouble for being late.
D. It was tough to run that fast for that long.
C
300
Which actress played Katniss Everdeen in the film adaptation of The Hunger Games?
Who is Jennifer Lawrence?
300
What is the term for the way a story ends?
what is resolution
400
Which of the following contains all proper nouns?
A. Kate, Christine, walk
B. Greyhound, Michael Jordan, New York
C. skip, hop, talk
D. Bryan, said, Tony
B
400
What kind of figurative language is the following?
Kisses are the flowers of love in bloom.
What is metaphor
400
Read the following sentences: Juan wrote a book. It was about Al Qaeda.
What is the best way to combine the sentences?
A. Juan wrote and interesting book and it was about Al Qaeda.
B. The Al Qaeda book Juan wrote was interesting.
C. The interesting book Juan wrote was about Al Qaeda.
D. Juan wrote an interesting book about Al Qaeda.
What punctuation mark is missing from this sentence?
The team carried in the bats, balls and gloves.
D
400
What is the moral lesson of the Frog and the Ox?
What is "Pride can be costly"
400
What does third-person omniscient point of view mean?
What is the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
500
Which sentence has all the following parts of speech (pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, noun)?
A. Skipped happily to the store.
B. He skipped happily to the blue store.
C. He to the blue store happily.
D. He skipped happily to the store.
B
500
What kind of figure of speech is the following?
For AIMS, we all plan to put our best foot forward.
What is an idiom
500
When you make an_________, you are making an educated guess based on facts and details in a reading passage.
What is an inference
500
What does the acronym SOAPS stand for?
What is Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker
500
What is the literary term for when the narrator of a story interrupts the present action to insert an event or scene from the past into the chronological order of events?