Parts of Speech 1
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
In the following sentence, students functions as this part of speech.
The students talked loudly.
What is noun?
This figure of speech is a comparison that uses 'like' or 'as.'
What is simile?
She was as busy as a bee is exemplary of this figure of speech.
What is simile?
What is the world-wide web?
This part of speech shows action or state of being
What is a verb?
In the following sentence, "typed" functions as this part of speech:
The 2nd period class talked quietly to one another while the teacher typed in the attendance.
What is verb?
This figure of speech makes a direct comparison between two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
The Harding defense mowed down the opposing team.
What is metaphor?
True or false: all clownfish are born female and become a male later.
What is a false?
All clownfish are born male.
This part of speech describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
In the following sentence, "booming" functions as this part of speech:
The principal had a booming voice.
What is an Adjective?
This figure of speech gives human qualities to nonhuman (inanimate) things, animals, or ideas.
What is personification?
Mr. Adler gave the class a ton of homework on the third day of school.
What is hyperbole?
What is Uranus?
This part of speech shows relationship to other words in a sentence often showing time, place, direction or location.
What is a preposition?
In the following sentence, "beautifully" functions as this part of speech.
The students sang beautifully at the teacher's convocation.
What is an adverb?
This figure of speech describes an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
"I could do it, but it would cost you an arm and a leg" is exemplary of this figure of speech.
What is hyperbole?
One of the following animals change change both color and texture to camouflage:
Shark
Whale
Octopus
Starfish
What is an Octopus?
This part of speech expresses strong emotion and is often followed by an exclamation point.
What is an interjection?
In the following sentence, "alas" functions as this part of speech:
"Alas! I must leave this place.: (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
What is an interjection?
This figure of speech describes a phrase with a meaning that cannot be understood literally.
What is an idiom?
This line from Tennyson's poem is representative of this figure of speech:
"Old age hath yet his honor and his toil; Death closes all."
What is personification?
This is the rarest blood type.
AB Negative (Twist: Double all your points!)