Which one of these is a compound sentence?
Marsha and Jane like to fish.
Marsha likes to fish and Jane likes to sing.
What is *Marsha likes to fish and Jane likes to sing.
100
What type of figurative language is this?
Her Easter dress was like a ballerina's skirt.
What is a simile?
100
Name the type of writing from the clue given.
Which of the two is a type of writing that tells a story.
Persuasive Writing
Narrative Writing
What is narrative writing?
100
Name two ways that Brian and Karana were alike.
What is (answers may vary) they were both stranded alone, they both developed skills of hunting and survival, they both used tools, ect....
100
Identify the subject in the example sentence.
Before the beginning of school, teachers must prepare their rooms for their new students.
What is techers?
200
Which of these is an exclamatory sentence?
What is your first name
What a beautiful day
What is *what is a beautiful day.
200
What type of figurative language is used in the following example?
Life is an adventure.
What is a metaphor?
200
Which of the following is a type of writing that tries to get someone to change their mind about something?
Persuasive Writing
Expository Writing
What is Persuasive Writing?
200
What big event happened on the same day that Brian cooked the food from the emergency pack?
What is the pilot found him and he was rescued.
200
Identify the verb.
Before the beginning of school, teachers must prepare their rooms for their new students.
What is prepare?
300
Which sentence is complete?
Landing in the water not far from the ship.
Immediately they popped their flares and life vests.
How to install new software.
What is*Immediately they popped their flares and life vests.
300
What type of figurative language is used in this example?
I'm so hungry I'm starving to death!
What is hyperbole?
300
Name a type of writing that tries to fully explain something
What is expository writing?
300
Tell why Karana jumped from the ship that was taking her whole tribe to a new island.
What is her little brother, Ramo, was left behind.
300
Identify one of three prepositional phrases in the following example.
Before the beginning of school, teachers prepare their rooms for their new students.
What is before the beginning, of school, and for their new students?
400
Which of these is a run-on sentence?
The toy lay in the yard it was broken badly.
The child had a broken toy in his yard.
What is *The toy lay in the yard it was broken.
400
What type of figurative language is used in the following example?
Polly Pocket loves Purple Passionfruit icecream.
What is alliteration?
400
Name three words that a writer could use to move their passage along. Name three transition words.
What is (possible answers vary) therefore, whereas, next, first, last, secondly, ect..
400
The word part glyph means to write. The word petra means rock.
What is meant by the word petroglyph?
What is writing on rocks done by ancient people groups.
400
Identify an adjective in the example.
Before the beginning of school, teachers prepare their classrooms for their new students.
What is the,their, their, new, students?
500
Which sentences needs to be edited for completeness?
Bottled water has been in the news lately.
The dog ran to it's house the cat ran for the house.
What is *The dog ran to it's house the cat ran for the house.
500
What type of figurative language is used in this example?
Alpha is to Omega as first is to last.
What is an analogy?
500
Which type of writing follows these steps on a graphic organizer; intro, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion.
What is narrative writing?
500
The word part 'quad' means four. The word part 'ped' means foot.
What is meant by the word quadruped?
What is something having four feet, usually an animal, but could also refer to a peice of furniture.
500
Identify the adverb in the sentence.
The small blond girl squealed loudly when she couldn't have the toy.