"Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action"
What is a simile
100
May 4 2011
What is 4, 2011 (comma)
100
Short Story
What is quotation marks
100
I, you he, she, it
What are singular, subject pronouns
100
ex-, in-, pre-, pro-, re-
What are prefixes
200
"Silver bells!... How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night."
What is onomatopoeia or repetition
200
Will you lend me eighty five cents
What is eighty -five (hyphen)
200
Poem
What is quotation marks
200
my, mine, your yours, his her, hers
What are possessive, singular pronouns
200
-s, -es, ed, -ing
What are suffixes
300
"His fin is a piece of sheet-iron, three corned and with a knife-edge."
What is a metaphor
300
The six month old kitten was trapped inside the empty closet.
What is six-month-old (hypen)
300
Let the book Dragonwings lie on the shelf until you're ready to read it.
What is Dragonwings (underline)
300
Pronouns used as a direct object, an indirect object, or an object of a preposition
What are object pronouns (me, you, him, her, us, you, them, it)
300
rob/ steal
satisfy, please
pledge, vow
What are synonyms
400
"What happerns to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
What is simile, alliteration
Double Jeopardy - What two things are being compared and explain what it means.
400
Clara burton whose nickname was Angel of the Battilefield founded the Red Cross
What is Barton (dash or comma) whose/ battlefield (dash or comma) founded
400
Song - America the Beautiful
What is quotation mark
400
A noun or pronoun that a pronoun relaces or refers to.
What is antecedent
400
The images or feelings you connect to a word.
(thin/ scrawny)
What is connotations
500
"I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark then do my homework!"
What is hyperbole
500
In his youth Edison was a clever likable prankster.
What is youth, Edison
500
Picasso's painting, Three musicians
What is underline
500
Double Jeopardy
My grandfather told the story to Ron and ____ (singular, first person)
What is me
500
alt
vert
grad
What are root words ( root is a word part that conveys the core meaning of a word)
alt means high (altitude)
vert means to turn (divert)
grad means step, degree (graduate)