Vocabulary
Define the term contagious.
What is capable of being passed around from one person to another.
What do pronouns and nouns have in common?
What is they can both be the subject of a sentence?
What type of sentence has more that one sentence combined by a conjunction?
What is a compound sentence.
Name a synonym for the term collasped.
What is buckled.
What type of figurative language uses the words "like" or "as"?
What is a simile?
Define the term frequency.
What is the rate at which something occurs.
This part of speech replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun.
What word is used to describe one someone or more than one person is speaking in a story?
What is dialogue.
Name a synonym for the word describe.
What is modify.
What type of figurative language explains what something is?
What is a metaphor.
Define the term symptom.
What is a feature that indicates a disease.
This part of speech can determine the frequency in which something occurs.
What is an adverb?
When an author tag is before the dialogue, should a writer add a comma or a period.
What is a comma.
Name a synonym for the term mucus.
What is phlegm.
The light shone bright like a star.
What is a simile.
Define the term chronology.
What is
This part of speech can be action, linking, or a state of "being."
What is a verb.
List the four types of sentences.
1. Declarative 2. Interrogative. 3. Imperative 4. Exclamatory
Name a synonym for the term woozy.
What is dizzy or weak.
Simile or metaphor?
She was a kite, floating above all of the confusion around her.
What is a metaphor.
Define the term buckled.
What is bent or collasped.
This part of speech can be common or proper.
What is a noun.
List the five criteria for a complete sentence.
1. Subject 2. Verb. 3. Punctuation 4. A Capital. Letter 5. The sentence must make sense.
Name a synonym for the word contaminate.
What is infect.
Explain the strategy for determining if a group of words is a simile or a metaphor.
1. Read the sentence. 2. Identify what two things are being compared. 3. Determine if the sentence includes the words "like" or "as." 4. As if the sentence is explaining what something "is."