Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
The Odyssey
Grammar & Punctuation
Raisin in the Sun
100
A comparison using like or as. Example: Her beauty shone as bright as the sun.
What is a simile?
100
Identify this part of speech. Highly
What is an adverb?
100
Odysseus faces trouble from this god.
Who is Poseidon?
100
Find the incorrect capitalization in the sentence. Clara Barton served as a volunteer nurse during the civil war.
What is Civil War?
100

True or False. Mama is Beneatha's grandmother.

What is false?

200
She sells sea shells down by the sea shore is an example of this.
What is an alliteration?
200
Identify this part of speech. the WILTED flower
What is an adjective?
200
He wrote the Odyssey
What is Homer?
200
Find the comma mistake. I water my flowers at, the break of day.
What is at? I water my flowers at the break of day.
200

Walter works as a _____ to pay the bills.

What is a chauffeur? (Or, what is a driver?)

300
A direct comparison. Example: This classroom is a zoo.
What is a metaphor?
300
Identify the possessive pronoun in the sentence: Many people report that their hobby is collecting something of interest.
What is their?
300
This is how Odysseus and his men escape from the Cyclops.
What is blind the Cyclops and sneak away?
300
Find the comma mistake. My youngest sister Amy wants to plant pumpkins this year.
What is Amy? My youngest sister, Amy, wants to plant pumpkins this year.
300

Why is the family receiving a check in the mail?

What is "because Walter sr. died?"

400

"BANG!" "Crash!" "KERPOW!!" are all examples of what?

What is onomatopoeia?

400
Fix this sentence. The rarest diamonds appears colorless or pale blue.
What is The rarest diamonds appear colorless or pale blue?
400
The Cyclops' real name.
What is Polyphemus?
400
The following sentence is either correct or incorrect. Tending a garden, I believe, improves my mental health.
What is correct?
400

Mama and Big Walter experienced a great tragedy in their lives. What was it?

What is a miscarriage?

500
Giving human like qualities to non-human objects. Example: The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
What is personification?
500
The following sentence is correct or incorrect. Two cardinals make its home in that tree every spring.
What is incorrect? Two cardinals make their home in that tree every spring.
500
Out of the two character traits, this one causes Odysseus the most trouble. Pride, Dishonesty
What is pride?
500

For a sentence to truly be a sentence (and not a fragment), it must have at least one ____ & ______.

What is a subject & predicate?

500

The title of this play is taken from a poem by which award-winning poet?

Who is Langston Hughes?

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