Parts of Speech
Genre
Figurative Language
MCAS Vocabulary
MCAS Mish-Mash
100
This part of speech describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
100
Written in lines and stanzas with figurative language.
What is a poem?
100
"Sharp as a tack" is an example of this style of figurative language.
What is a simile?
100
This is the problems the main characters face in a story.
What is conflict?
100
What strategy do you use when you have to write about a story? 

What is the writing diamond?

200
"Walking through the woods, Jeffrey got attacked by a grizzly bear." The word "attacked" is used as what part of speech?
What is a verb?
200
This has characters, spoken words, and stage directions.
What is a play?
200
"Kaboom!" is an example of this style of figurative language.
What is onomatopoeia?
200

The name for what the passage is mostly about. 

What is the main idea?

200

Every Open Response needs to start with this. (Extra 100 points for giving the definition.)

What is a restate?

300
This part of speech takes the place of a noun, is more specific, and always starts with a capital letter.
What is a proper noun?
300
This is a made up story that could be true, or seems like it is real.
What is realistic fiction?
300
"Sheila should share her shells." is an example of this style of figurative language.
What is alliteration?
300
Something that causes something else to happen.
What is cause and effect?
300
You need to do these two things when you find an answer in the passage.
What are underline and label with the question number?
400

"The red firetruck zoomed down the street." Which words in the sentence are nouns? 

What are street and firetruck? 

400

A nonfiction book written about a person's life by another person. 

What is a biography?

400

Write a synonym for the word, little.  

What is small, tiny, miniature..... 

400
This is known as what the author wants the reader to get out of their piece of writing, or the moral of the story.
What is the author's message?
400

You need to include three of these in your Open Response to prove where you got the answer to the question.

What is pieces of evidence?

500

When a name is replaced with I, you, they, them. 

What is a pronoun?

500

A made up story with a moral, and passed down from generation to generation. 

What is a folktale?

500

Write an antonym for the word soft. 

What is hard or rough?

500

The person who is telling the story. 

Who is the narrator?

500

Write an essay. What steps do you use? 

What is Restate, Answer, Cite, and Explain? 

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