Commonly Confused Words
There's a stupid fly in that room!
Fly: An insect/to hover in midair
What is an insect?
Name the type of figurative language:
When you're taking a test for 3 hours, it feels like ages!
What is hyperbole?
Tissue Box
Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb?
What is a Noun
A sentence used to ask questions
Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative or Exclamatory
What is Interrogative?
Name a synonym of terrific.
What is:
Amazing, Immense, Great, Astonishing, Sublime, etc.
The 2 definitions of "rose"
What is:
To get up/past tense of "rise"
A type of flower
Name the kind of figurative language:
The butterfly flew away like a feather in the air.
What is simile?
Amazing
Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb?
What is an Adjective?
Come with me to the restaurant next week.
Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, or Exclamatory
What is Imperative?
Name a synonym of value.
What is:
Amount, profit, expense, worth, etc.
Dove: A white bird/past tense of "dive"
What is past tense of "dive?"
Name the type of figurative language:
When your alarm clock goes off, its so annoying the way it goes "BRIINNG" until you turn it off!
What is onomatopoeia?
Find the verb:
Everyone! The test is complete.
What is complete?
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!
Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, or Exclamatory
What is Exclamatory?
Name a synonym for big.
Large, massive, colossal, giant, enormous, gigantic, immense, etc.
The differences between "by," "buy," and "bye"
What is:
By- Normally used to describe being next to something
Buy- To purchase something
Bye- Short version of "goodbye"
Claire, close your cluttered closet.
What is alliteration?
Name the subject and the predicate:
This flavor of tea is amazing!
What is:
Subject: This flavor of tea,
Predicate: is amazing?
Which 2 types of sentences:
Tomorrow, I might go to the park with my friends, and then help build a chair with my parents. Wanna help?Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, or Exclamatory
What is Declarative, Interrogative?
Name a synonym of delight.
What is:
Glee, happiness, satisfaction, joy, contentment, etc.
What is:
Fairy: A magical, typically flying, mythical creature
Ferry: A boat that transports passengers across bodies of water
The Sun struck us with it's rays.
What is personification?
Find the proper noun:
3% of water on Earth is freshwater. The oceans make up the rest, which is saltwater. All of that together makes up 71% of Earth, which is water.
What is Earth?
Name all the types of sentences in sentence order:
Can you help me? He's really angry! Help me calm him down. I feel really bad for making him mad! I don't know what I said for him to get angry.
Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, or Exclamatory
What is Interrogative, Exclamatory, Imperative, Exclamatory, Declarative?
Name a synonym of Jeopardy.
What is: Chance, risk, accident, peril, etc.