Figurative Language
What figurative language is present in the following sentence?
My mother is as busy as a bee.
Simile
Pick a transition set for an essay with three body paragraphs. You should have three transitions for three star ideas.
First, next, last
To begin, in addition, finally
Revise the following fragment:
After school my friends
Add a predicate
What is the proper name for what a pronoun refers to in a sentence?
Antecedent
What type of conjunction is used in a compound sentence? Use the technical term.
Coordinating or FANBOYS
What figurative language is present in the following sentence?
The computer argued with me and refused to work.
Personification
Read the writing prompt then decide which topic sentence fits best:
Explain why people should not want to smoke cigarettes.
Smoking often leads to cancer, causes bad breath, and stains a person’s teeth.
Cigarettes cost too much money
Last year my uncle was diagnosed with lung cancer after smoking cigarettes for 18 years.
1. Smoking often leads to cancer, causes bad breath, and stains a person’s teeth.
Which comes first in the writing process, editing or revising?
Revising
What are the three types of verbs we have learned about?
action, linking, helping
What is the meaning of the prefix 'poly'?
many
What figurative language is present in the following sentence?
My grandmother's garden is flourishing because of her green thumb.
Idiom
In what mode of writing is a thesis statement utilized?
Argumentative
Correct the vague pronoun error in the sentence:
My mom's car was stolen, so she reported it to the police.
My mom's car was stolen, so my mom reported it to the police.
What is the object of the preposition?
Venetian merchants traded with many different countries.
countries
Create a complex sentence.
Answers will vary.
What figurative language is present in the following sentence?
The concert was so loud the drums echoed in space.
Hyperbole
Read the intro paragraph then decide which topic sentence fits best.
What has happened to that great community that I grew up in? The quiet, beautiful neighborhood that I once knew is no longer recognizable. It is now overloaded with problems.
a. I don’t know what’s going to be done about all these problems.
b. No one seems to care about the problems we are facing.
c. Among the many problems we face are violence, drugs, and homelessness.
c. Among the many problems we face are violence, drugs, and homelessness.
Fix the following run-on sentence so that it is a compound sentence:
After school I ran home I was out of breath.
Add a comma and a CC after home
What part of speech is the capitalized word in the following sentence:
For Christmas, my mom gave me a LIGHT blue blanket for my living room.
Adverb
Put the following steps in the writing process in chronological order (what you would do first, next, then, etc.):
Revise Share/Publish
Plan Prewrite
Draft Edit
Final Copy Proofread
Prewrite, Plan, Draft, Revise, Edit, Final Copy, Proofread, Share/Publish
What type of figurative language is defined by the following? (you must spell it correctly)
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Onomatopoeia
Create a thesis statement that is a complex sentence and answers the following prompt:
Should we get rid of paper money?
Answers will vary.
Correct the following sentence by rewriting it:
New york is the best in the summer my aunt lives their and we visited in september of last year
New York is the best in the summer. My aunt lives there, and we visited in September of last year.
Label the following sentence with the correct parts of speech.
I bought drinks and deli sandwiches at the supermarket yesterday.
Pro, V, N, Conj, Adj, N, Prep, Art, N, Adv
The word "alphabet" comes from what two letters of the Greek alphabet?
alpha & beta