Parts of Speech
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Choose the best synonym for "meticulous" as used in: She was meticulous about saving her notes."
Thorough
Which organizational structure is most likely used in a passage that tells the steps to build a birdhouse?
Sequence.
What figurative language is the following sentence "The old house groaned as the wind slipped through its broken shutters."
Personification.
The time, place, and weather of a story.
What is setting?
What is the action verb: "The dog barked loudly".
What is barked?
A physician who specializes in the care of children from infancy to adolescence.
What is a pediatrician?
What is cause and effect?
The feeling or atmosphere created by a text for the reader.
What is Mood?
The main character in a story.
Identify the adverb in: "She ran quickly".
What is quickly?
What does the underlined word mean in this sentence: "After a long day, she was completely famished and ate two whole pizzas."
What is hungry?
"The class plants were dying. The students started watering them every morning." Identify the structure.
What is problem and solution?
The author's attitude toward their subject or audience.
What is tone?
The character or force that opposes the main character.
Who is the antagonist?
What type of word modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying it?
What is an adjective?
What is a synonym for Frigid?
What is freezing?
The modern Olympics are very unlike the ancient Olympic games. Individual events are different. While there was no swimming in the ancient games, for example, there were chariot races. What is the text structure?
What is compare and contrast?
A way of hinting or indicating what will come next in a text.
What is foreshadowing?
The central message, lesson, or moral of a story.
Identify the two adjectives in this sentence: "The shiny, blue bike belongs to me."
What is shiny, blue?
"He has a heart of gold." What does this mean?
He is very kind.
Which text structure uses adjectives, details, and examples to describe a topic?
What is description?
Using "I", "me," "my" in a story indicates this point of view.
What is first person?
The turning point or highest emotional point in the story.
What is the climax?