Vocabulary
This word means "a temporary state of mind or feeling."
"Mood"
This part of speech describes a noun or a pronoun.
"Adjective"
The author of "Harry Potter."
J.K. Rowling
The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of view
The largest ocean on Earth.
Pacific ocean
A synonym for "happy" that starts with the letter 'j'.
"Joyful"
This is the part of the sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about.
"Subject"
This play by William Shakespeare features romance, family feuds and tragedy.
Romeo and Juliet
This term describes the time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
The longest river in the world.
The Nile river
This word means "a comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as'."
"Simile"
This type of clause cannot stand alone as a sentence.
"Dependent clause"
The hero of the Greek epic "The Odyssey."
Odysseus
This device gives human qualities to non-human things.
Personification
This country is the largest by land area.
Russia
A word that means "to suggest or hint at something without directly stating it."
"Imply"
This punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses.
"Semicolon"
This dystopian novel about 13 districts and young people fighting for their lives by Suzanne Collins was turned into a successful film franchise.
The hunger games
a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme
Stanza
The process by which plants make their own food using sunlight.
photosynthesis
a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison
"Metaphor"
Verb tense that indicates that an action or condition is happening now, frequently, and may continue into the future
"Present continuous"
This novel by J.R.R. Tolkien was adapted into a trilogy directed by Peter Jackson.
The lord of the rings
A traditional Japanese poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.
Haiku
A number that cannot be expressed as a fraction is an
irrational number