Parts of Speech
Find the adjective
The happy bikers stopped for lunch.
Happy
What kind of sentence is it?
Declarative, interrogative, command, exclamatory
What is your favorite movie?
Interrogative
What is the prefix?
Unsatisfactory
un
This subgenre of writing explains, describes, or informs
What literary device is being used?
After getting my report card, I knew it was time to hit the books
Idiom
Find the verb
Alex brought his new watch today
brought
What is the predicate of the sentence?
He is the leader of the group
is the leader of the group
What is the base or root word?
distasteful
taste
This subgenre is when a person writes an account of their own life
Autobiography
What literary device is being used?
She cried like a baby
simile
Alan eats very slowly
slowly
Complete sentence or sentence fragment?
Where their fire had been.
Sentence fragment
What is the suffix
successfully
-ly
This genre refers to a made up story that could happen in real life
Realistic fiction
What literary device is being used?
The bus coughed, burped and sputtered.
Personification
proper noun or common noun?
brother
common noun
What kind of sentence is it?
Declarative, interrogative, command, exclamatory
Line up in ten seconds.
Command (imperative)
What does the prefix re- mean?
To do again
This style of writing convinces a reader to agree with the author's opinion
Persuasive writing
What literary device is being used?
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse
Hyperbole
Find the preposition
It fell beneath the water.
beneath
What kind of sentence is it?
Declarative, interrogative, command, exclamatory
Today is Monday.
Declarative
What does the suffix -ful mean?
Full of
This subgenre refers to a made up story in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past
What literary device is being used?
Whoosh! The breeze moved through the trees.