8 Parts of speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Show consideration and regard for someone or something and have kind and mindful actions
What is Respect?
This type of comparison uses “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This theme often explores relationships, emotional connection, and the power of love to overcome obstacles.
What is Romance?
This word takes the place of a noun to avoid repetition.
What is a pronoun?
Careful to not cause an inconvenience or to hurt others, and being mindful and empathetic.
What is Considerate?
Saying “the classroom was a zoo” is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
In stories with this theme, readers follow clues, suspects, and red herrings to uncover the truth behind a puzzling event or crime.
What is Mystery?
This part of speech shows an action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
No matter the obstacles that you may come across, you have a strong will to succeed.
What is Determination?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
Dragons, quests, and magical realms are all common in novels with this theme of escaping into imaginative worlds.
What is Fantasy?
This part of speech tells how, when, where, or to what extent something happens.
What is an adverb?
Being truthful and responsible for your actions and their consequences.
What is Accountability?
A deliberate exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
This theme looks to the future or beyond Earth, exploring technology, space travel, and what it means to be human.
What is Science Fiction?
This part of speech shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and another word in a sentence — like “under” or “through.”
What is a preposition?
Being truthful and making the right choices, even when nobody is around.
What is Integrity?
“She sells seashells by the seashore” uses this device to repeat consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
Set in oppressive societies, stories with this theme often depict a bleak future where individuality and freedom are under constant threat.
What is Dystopian?