Parts of Speech
person, place, thing, or idea
Asks the question Who or What
What is a Noun?
My brothers are as loud as a herd of elephants.
What is a simile?
R stands for
What is Restate the question?
Larges country in Africa, Southern area became a new nation in 2011, Northern area mostly Arab Muslim, population 12.9 million
What is South Sudan?
The young soldier arrived at camp from a small town in Idaho.
What is the subject?
Five simple rules: subject, verb, makes sense, capital letter, end mark
What is a sentence?
The new baby was a bundle of joy.
What is a metaphor?
E stands for
What is explain and elaborate?
The language Salva learned in school
What is Arabic?
The children on the stage sang beautifully.
What is a verb?
modifies a verb, adjective,..., asks the questions How? When? Where?
What is an Adverb?
giving human qualities to non-human things, animals, objects or ideas.
What is personification?
The text states... The author concludes... The article provides...
What is citing evidence?
Element of Fiction: survival, poverty, good vs. evil, perseverance, loss, endurance
What is theme?
An interested buyer has been looking at the business district.
What is the object of the preposition?
A special group of words that connect a noun or a pronoun to the rest of the sentence. There are 49 common ones
What are prepositions?
a group of words whose meaning isn't understood from literal meaning. "After my date, I was on cloud 9".
What is an idiom?
As you can see by my evidence...The facts clearly indicate...The facts show that...This means
What is explaining/elaborating?
Salva's wants to survive to make them proud.
Who is Salva's family?
I waved excitedly at the hot-air. balloons above me.
What is the subject pronoun?
8 Be Verbs with 15 more
What are the 23 Helping Verbs?
Writers use this to express ideas in a way that is not literal.
What is Figurative Language?
RACES
What is Restate the Question, Answer the question, Cite evidence from the text, Explain and Elaborate, Sum it up
Two tribes who fight over water
Dinka and Nuer
I did not look closely at the threatening sky on my way to school.
What is the possessive pronoun adjective?