King Lexicon
Subjects and Predicates
Writer's Tricks
Literary Terms
This and That
100

The correct way to alphabetize the following list of words:

  • fallow

  • falter

  • false

  • fallen

Answer

  • What is...

    • fallen

    • fallow

    • false

    • falter

100

The complete predicate of the following sentence is...

Peter was assigned to carry the picnic baskets.

What is...

was assigned to carry the picnic baskets.

100

The following is an example of this writer’s trick:


    “ ‘Sometime, honey’, she said, soft like footsteps in a new snow, ‘I’d like to hear the story you read at school.’ ”

What is a simile.

100

The main character in a story.

Who is the protagonist.

100
The following word is NOT a helping verb...


is

had

could

ran

What is ran

200

To look up the word quietly in the dictionary you would need to look up this word.

What is quiet.

200

The complete subject in the following sentence is...

His older brother and the others scolded him and told him to look in the bushes.

What is...

His older brother and the others

200

  • The following is an example of these writer’s tricks:


 “But my new-old-big-and-filled-up heart told me that if I’d just take a step, without considering it too much, in an instant I’d be at the other side.”

What is a hyphenated modifier and a personification.

200

  • The person or force opposing the main character of the story.

Who is the antagonist

200

The following verb is NOT a linking verb:

do

is

would

are

What is would

300

The part of speech excellence from the following entry is...

excellence (n) 

  1. the fact or state of excelling; superiority; eminence:his excellence in mathematics.
  2. an excellent quality or feature:Use of herbs is one of the excellences of French cuisine.
  3. (usually initial capital letter) excellency(def 1).


What is a noun.

300

The subject in the following sentence is either simple or compound.


  • The chicken was “finger-licking good.”

What is simple

300

  • The following is an example of this writer’s trick:


 “…he told the sky and the stars and the valley…”

What is magic 3 or parallel structure.  

300

The plan or what happens in a story.

What is the plot.

300

The verb phrase in the following sentence is...

Joe will run to the store after school.

What is will run

400

  • The number of syllables in the word malfunction.

What is 3.

mal func tion

400

The subject is either simple or compound in the following sentence...

  • The ants and bees wanted to join in on the fun.

What is compound

400

  • The following is an example of this writer’s trick:

 “I’m sorry I scared you in the woods.   I’m sorry I was mean to you…I’m just sorry.”

What is repetition for effect.

400

  • Where and when a story takes place.

What is the setting.

400

  • The prepositions in the following sentence are…


“At recess I’d sit on the steps by the cafeteria.”

What are at, on, and by

500

  • The i in hit sounds most like the i in…

    • might

    • igloo

    • died

    • ice




What is igloo.

500

The predicate in the following sentence is either simple or compound.

  • Peter ran in circles and swatted the pesty insects.



What is compound.

500

  • The following is an example of these writer’s tricks                                                                   “ The tree was a soldier guarding the   entry to the forest.”





What is a metaphor and a personification.

500

  • The point of a story; the message, the lesson, the moral

What is the theme.

500

  • The verb phrase in the following sentence is what.                                                                          He will be going to the store after school.

will be going

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