Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
Every complete sentence contains a subject and this.
What is a predicate? (What is a verb? is also acceptable.)
Two clauses that are not properly separate by punctuation. For example, "Steve is sick he won't be in today."
What is a run-on sentence?
Compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Suzanne Collins wrote this famous series about a girl who fights in a to-the-death competition in order to protect her younger sister.
What is The Hunger Games?
It describes an action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
This sentence structure contains just one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
Two clauses improperly connected with a comma. For example, "Steve is sick, he won't be in today."
What is a comma splice?
What is a metaphor?
Writer of the popular Harry Potter series.
Who is J. K. Rowling?
People use the acronym FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So) to remember this part of speech.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
This sentence structure often contains subordinating conjunctions, like "because," "since," or "although," and it consists of only one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
For instance: "Walking in the classroom, the air felt warm."
What is a dangling participle? (What is a dangling modifier? is also acceptable.)
Gives human qualities to non-human things. For example, "The sun smiled down on me."
What is personification?
This author, who died in 1849, is one of America's most well-known writers of horror stories, like "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
An adjective.
What is the part of speech that describes a noun?
Sentences that contain two independent clauses, usually connected with a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
This is an example: "The 15 year old student answered the question."
What are missing hyphens?
Kerplunk! Bonk! Rat-a-tat! These are all examples of this sound device.
What is onomatopoeia?
Lewis Carroll is most well-known for writing this book about a girl who follows a white rabbit into a mysterious world.
What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? (What is Alice in Wonderland? is also acceptable.)
This part of speech modifies a verb or an adjective. For example, quickly in "ran quickly."
What is an adverb?
A compound-complex sentence contains at least this many independent clauses and this many dependent clauses.
What has at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause?
For example: "The boys flees in terror."
What is an incorrect subject-verb agreement?
When an author refers to a famous person, place, thing, or event to create a specific effect. For example, "And I'm brainless, which means I'm headless like Ichabod Crane is."
What is an allusion?
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer were created by this beloved American author.
Who is Mark Twain?