Parts of Speech
This, that, and the other
Prefix & Suffix
Figurative Language
Reference
100
This is the general name of a person, place, or thing, or idea. These are not capitalized.
What is a common noun?
100
This is a time of a verb. We know them as past, present, and future.
What is tense?
100
This is added at the end of a word and changes its meaning.
What is a suffix?
100
This figurative language is an expression that has literal and figurative meaning.
What is an idiom?
100
This is a tool for defining words and determining their pronunciations.
What is a dictionary?
200
This describes a noun and makes your writing more interesting and entertaining.
What is an adjective?
200
These words offer the same meaning as other words.
What is synonyms?
200
This is added to the beginning of a word and changes its meaning.
What is a prefix?
200
This figurative language gives lifelike qualities or abilities to nonliving or inanimate objects.
What is personification?
200
If you want data on population growth in your city you might check out this.
What is an almanac?
300
This is a word that describes a verb or an adjective- they tell where, how, or when something happens.
What is an adverb?
300
Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory are all this.
What is types of sentences. ***Define each one***
300
This prefix changes words to mean before.
What is pre?
300
This is an extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
300
These come out in the form of newspapers.
What is a periodical?
400
This is a word than connects single words or groups of words in a sentence- and, but, or, nor, for, so, and yet are all examples.
What is a conjunction?
400
This tells who or what is doing something in a sentence.
What is a subject?
400
-ly, -ful, -able, -en, -ion, -ness, -less, are all common:
What is suffix?
400
This is a comparison of two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
400
This contains information on many topics and are categorized by letters in the alphabet.
What is an encyclopedia?
500
This is the specific name for a person, place, or thing- for example, Mrs. McAllister is my teacher. Mrs. McAllister is a _____.
What is proper noun?
500
This tells what the subject in a sentence is doing.
What is a predicate?
500
This common prefix changes words to mean together, or with.
What is co-?
500
This is a comparison that does not use "like" or "as", but makes more of a statement.
What is a metaphor?
500
This is our main source of the most current information, but use caution- it is not always accurate!
What is the internet?
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