Parts of Speech
Greek & Latin Roots
Language Skills
Literary Elements
Potpouri
100
The words Whitman Middle School from the sentence: I go to Whitman Middle School.
What are Proper nouns?
100
A root that means move.
What is mobil?
100
This punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list.
What is a comma?
100
Hints or clues about what is to come next
What is foreshadowing?
100
to find similarities and differences
What is to compare & contrast?
200
The word she from the sentence: Susie was really hungry, so she stopped for fast food.
What is the pronoun?
200
A root that means self.
What is auto?
200
Placing a comma and a conjunction between two independent clauses such as: The house burned to the ground, so we had to get an apartment. Forms a _________
What is compound sentence?
200
Two words I could use as synomys for theme.
What are lesson and moral?
200
A play on words often treating homonyms as syonyms; often found in jokes
What is a pun?
300
The word seems from the sentence: This book seems too long.
What is a linking verb?
300
A root that means written.
What is graph?
300
The correct word in the folllowing sentence: I accept/except your invitation.
What is accept?
300
When Cinderella and her prince live happily ever after
What is the resolution of Cinderella?
300
A bibliography with notes about the sources
What is an annotated bibliography?
400
The word brightly from the sentence: The amazingly golden key flashed brightly in the sun.
What is an adverb?
400
A root that means circle.
What is cycle?
400
What is the predicate in the sentence: Billy ran home.
What is ran home?
400
A narrator from outside the story only knows the main character's thoughts and feelings.
What is 3rd person limited or objective?
400
a word that means the opposite of another word - hot & cold
What is antonym?
500
The words amazingly and bright from the sentence: The amazingly bright, golden key flashed in the sun.
What are adverbs?
500
A word that uses 3 roots we learned.
What is autobiogarphy?
500
The sentence that tells what a paragraph is about - no matter where it appears in the paragrpah (first, last or in the middle).
What is the topic sentence?
500
what the character says and does, what the character thinks and feels, direct description, and the way other characters react to a character
What are ways an author develops characterization?
500
When studying the WWII I read The Diary of Anne Frank. I used a ________ source.
What is a primary source?
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