Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This figure of speech compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
This is the most important idea in a passage or story.
What is the central idea?
This punctuation mark ends a declarative sentence.
What is a period?
This sentence introduces the main idea of a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
This part of speech shows action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
This figure of speech gives human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
This reading skill involves using clues from the text and your own thinking.
What is making an inference?
This punctuation shows strong emotion or excitement.
What is an exclamation mark?
What is an exclamation mark?
This paragraph wraps up your essay and restates the main idea.
What is the conclusion?
This part of speech describes or modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
This is an extreme exaggeration used for effect.
What is a hyperbole?
One of these can be proven true; the other is based on belief or feeling.
What are a fact and an opinion?
This punctuation replaces missing letters in contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
These sentences provide facts, examples, and details to support the main idea.
What are supporting sentences?
This part of speech connects words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
This figure of speech compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
This describes why an author wrote a text: to persuade, inform, or entertain.
What is the author’s purpose?
This punctuation joins two independent clauses without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
This sentence presents the main argument or claim of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
This part of speech modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
This is a commonly used phrase that means something different from its literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
This is the text structure that explains how one event leads to another.
What is cause and effect?
These are two ways to fix a run-on sentence.
What are using a period or adding a conjunction?
These are words or phrases used to connect ideas smoothly.
What are transitions?