Parts of Speech
Figurative Language
Plot
Conventions
Grab Bag
100
This part of speech takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
100
This type of figurative language is a commonly used expression.
What is an idiom?
100
This character directly opposes the main character in the story.
What is the antagonist.
100
Identify the conventional error (indicate if the error is with capitalization, punctuation, spelling or grammar). For points, you must correct the mistake at the whiteboard. "There are to many things to remember when it comes to editing."
What is spelling?
100
This was the first car manufacturer in the United States.
What is Ford?
200
This part of speech is used to describe a verb.
What is an adverb?
200
This part of speech uses a repeated consonant sound at the beginnings of words.
What is alliteration?
200
This type of conflict pits a character against himself or herself.
What is an internal conflict.
200
Identify the conventional error (indicate if the error is with capitalization, punctuation, spelling or grammar). For points, you must correct the mistake at the whiteboard. Weather or not you agree is irrelevant: editing and revising are extremely important in writing.
What is spelling?
200
This commonly-used type of vegetable includes the carrot, radish, turnip and beet.
What is a taproot?
300
Identify the preposition in this sentence: Mr. Murphy is laughing at you.
What is "at"?
300
Identify the figurative language in the following sentence: "The trees moan with agony in the high winds."
What is personification?
300
This part of the story happens directly after the climax.
What is falling action?
300
Identify the conventional error (indicate if the error is with capitalization, punctuation, spelling or grammar). For points, you must correct the mistake at the whiteboard. You should have less errors in your final draft than your rough draft.
What is grammar?
300
This is the largest animal on planet earth.
What is the blue whale?
400
Identify the two verbs in the following sentence: Are you going on vacation over summer?
What are "are" and "going"?
400
Identify the two examples of figurative language in the following sentence: The crack of the bat sounded like thunder at the baseball game.
What are onomatopoeia and simile?
400
This part of the plot is where the reader is generally first introduced to the setting, characters and conflict in a story.
What is the exposition?
400
Identify the conventional error (indicate if the error is with capitalization, punctuation, spelling or grammar). For points, you must correct the mistake at the whiteboard. We've arrived at the moment you've all been waiting for. Summer!
What is punctuation?
400
This country contains the greatest biodiversity of plants and animals in the world.
What is Brazil?
500
Identify all parts of speech in the following sentence: "Hurry up! I am waiting!"
What are: verb, preposition, pronoun, verb, verb.
500
Identify the two types of figurative language in the following sentence: "The big, bad wolf curled its lips, displaying an arsenal of shiny, white fangs."
What are alliteration and metaphor?
500
These are all five parts of a story, in order.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution?
500
Identify the conventional errors (indicate if the error is with capitalization, punctuation, spelling or grammar). For points, you must correct the mistake at the whiteboard. "We should start taking better care of Mother earth, without a healthy environment, humans, too, face another mass extinction."
What is capitalization and punctuation.
500
These are four of the top six gold-producing countries in the world.
What are China, Australia, Russia, the U.S., Canada and Peru?
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