Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
Another word for the main character of a story.
What is protagonist?
'Clicking' is an example of this.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The feeling an audience/reader gets from a text.
What is mood?
The first paragraph of an essay.
What is the introduction paragraph?
Describes a noun.
Adjective
The type of conflict if the antagonist is a hurricane.
What is Character vs. Nature?
'Monsters make mayhem for mothers' would be an example of this.
What is alliteration?
A passing reference to something else.
What is allusion?
The author's purpose of a news article.
What is to inform.
'Mississippi' would be an example of this type of noun.
What is a proper noun?
The 'point of no return'.
What is the climax?
The two things this simile is comparing, "Her smile was as bright as the perfect sunrise."
What are 'her smile' and 'sunrise'?
_________ gives hints about what might happen later on in the story, and _________ is a scene that takes place in the past.
What are foreshadowing and flashback?
The main stance the author is trying to make in an essay.
What is a thesis?
You look at these words to determine what 'tense' a text is written in.
What is verbs?
A character that goes through changes from the beginning of the story to the end.
What is dynamic character?
'The violin strings sang as he played' would be an example of this.
What is 'personification'?
The three types of irony.
What are dramatic, situational, and verbal?
The purpose of a 'hook'.
What is to draw the reader in.
The noun, verb, adjective, and adverb in the following sentence: "The responsible students eagerly studied."
California, 1980s would be an example of this.
Give an example of a hyberbole.
Any example of an over-exaggeration.
The overall idea or message of a text.
What is theme?
Name 5 examples of nonfiction texts.
Any 5 examples. (News articles, essays, instruction manuals, informative posters, memoirs, biographies, diaries, letters, magazine articles, advertisements, business emails...)