Parts of Speech
Science
Poetry
Writing
Misc
100
This part of speech is a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
100
AP: A wheel barrow has two types of simple machines- name one.
What is a wheel and axel and lever?
100
AP: This is a poem where certain letters in each line spells out a word or phrase. Typically, the first letters of a line are used to spell the message; but, they can appear anywhere. (Bonus $100 - if you can write a three letter one of these poems)
What is an acrostic poem?
100
AP: This literary devise uses the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is a an alliteration?
100
This is an online competition that a few of our students wrote and submitted screenplays to.
What is the Pens to Lens competition?
200
This part of speech does an action, show a state of being, links two words together, or helps another of the same kind.
What is a verb?
200
Any of the basic mechanical devices for applying a force, such as an inclined plane, wedge, or lever.
What is a simple machine?
200
Located at our local coffee shop where students brought something to share.
What is a poetry reading at Cafe Kopi?
200
A fairy tale that is told from a different point of view. (Hint: You wrote one of these this year.)
What is a fractured fairy tale?
200
Event at the University of Illinois in which the coop attended and learned about all things science.
What is Engineering Open House?
300
This part of speech shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
300
This is the reason why people use simple machines.
What is to reduce the effort on our part?
300
AP: This poem consists of 3 lines and 17 syllables. Each line has a set number of syllables see below: Line 1 – 5 syllables Line 2 – 7 syllables Line 3 – 5 syllables
What is a Haiku?
300
AP: A literary device that uses "like" or "as" to compare something to another.
What is a simile?
300
This type of building is where you can observe and learn more about space, stars and planets.
What is the planetarium?
400
This part of speech modifies nouns.
What is an adjective?
400
AP: This person is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways.
Who is Rube Goldberg?
400
This famous medieval play-write also wrote poems called Sonnets.
Who is William Shakespeare?
400
This is a crucial part to every story. Without it the story would be boring and you wouldn't be very invested in it.
What is the climax?
400
AP: This type of art uses tiny strips of paper and winding them into different shapes.
What is quilling?
500
This part of speech modifies verbs or adjectives.
What is an adverb?
500
These simple machines have the fulcrum placed between the load and the effort, as in the seesaw, crowbar, and balance scale.
What is a first class lever?
500
This type of poem consists of five lines. The first line of this poem usually begins with 'There was a....' and ends with a name, person or place. The last line of this poem is normally a little farfetched or unusual. It should have a rhyme scheme of aabba: This means lines 1,2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme. Also, lines 1,2 and 5 should have 7 – 10 syllables and lines 3 and 4 should have 5 – 7 syllables.
What is a Limerick?
500
This is a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers.
What is an exposition?
500
The recreational activity of hunting for and finding a hidden object by means of GPS coordinates posted on a website.
What is geocaching?
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