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 MCAS you take this year.

What is the ELA Math and Science?

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
This term means a section, or a piece of a longer piece of writing.
What is an excerpt?
200

This is the dates of the ELA MCAS

What is April 4th and 5th

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

Something you should do when you find important information in the text.

What is underline?

400
Using the trick we learned in class, if you take out the word they are asking you about, and the sentence does not make sense,that word has to be one of these two parts of speech.
What is a noun or a verb?
400
A made up story with a crime, or something that needs to be solved, and has suspense.
What is a mystery?
400
"I am a rock. I am an island." is as example of this style of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
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 are direct quotes?
500
"When the student got signed in, she felt attacked by her teachers." The word "attacked" is used as this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
500
A made up story with a moral, and often has talking animals.
What is a fable?
500
"That joke is so old, the first time I heard it I was laughing so hard I fell off my dinosaur!" is an example of this style of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
500
The attitude of the writer toward a subject that is expressed in their writing.
What is tone?
500

This is what MCAS stands for.

What is Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System?

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