Grammar Rules
Which part of speech do you find by asking "What kind? Which one? How many?"
Adjective
What are the two things that every story needs?
Plot and Characters
Which kind of story has talking animals and a moral?
What is a proverb?
Wise saying
About how long should a paragraph be?
5 sentences
What part of speech is used to show emotion?
Interjection
What is another word for the "skeleton" or "bare bones" of a story?
Outline
What kind of story would The Chronicles of Narnia be?
Fantasy
What is a Chreia?
A short essay that praises the author of a proverb and why it is useful
What is a topic sentence?
A sentence that captures the main idea/topic of a paragraph
What are the eight be verbs?
am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
(2 parts): What are the main character and the obstacle to the main character called?
Protagonist and Antagonist
What kind of story is the Prodigal Son?
Parable
What is the difference between literal and figurative meanings?
Literal - the actual meaning of the words
Figurative - the hidden/imaginative meaning
What is a paragraph?
A group of sentences that form one idea.
What are the seven possessive pronouns?
my, your, his, her, its, our, their
What's the name for the beginning/opener of your story that should grab readers' attention?
The hook
What kind of story is Don Quixote?
Historical Fiction
What is the literal/figurative meaning of the proverb "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched"?
Don't count your success before it's over
Find the topic sentence.
Pork was the most important meat of the Middle Ages.
What are the three ways that a sentence could have inverted word order?
When it starts with an adverb, helping verb, or prepositional phrase
What are the 5 Ws and 1 H?
Who, What, When, Where, How, Why
Name 3 supposed "Antagonists" to Don Quixote.
Giants, Freston, Kidnappers, etc
What is the meaning of "That's the way the cookie crumbles"?
That's life
Find the topic sentence.
There were so many pigs that they made a nuisance of themselves.