Parts of Speech
Parts of Sentence
Identification
Rhetorical Devices
Wild
100
The noun in the following sentence: "My dad loves to read."
What is dad?
100
The prepositional phrase in this sentence: "Monica threw the ball across the field."
What is across the field?
100
Identify the part of speech for each word in the sentence. "He screamed so loudly!"
What is He (pronoun), screamed (verb), so (adverb), loudly (adverb)?
100
A question within a piece not meant to be answered because the answer is obvious.
What is rhetorical question?
100
What is the adverb in this sentence? "After running 3 miles, I could barely move."
What is barely?
200
The adjective in the sentence: "The crowded mall was a nightmare."
What is crowded?
200
The indirect object in this sentence: "Marcia gave Thomas a holiday card on Christmas Eve."
What is Thomas?
200
Identify the part of speech for each word in the sentence. "I took her picture."
What is I (pronoun), took (verb), her (pronoun), picture (noun).
200
The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
200
What is the conjunction in the sentence? "The game was cancelled due to the inclement weather."
What is due to?
300
The preposition(s) in the following sentence: "Peter's honesty allowed him to stay out of trouble."
What is to and out?
300
The direct object in this sentence: "When the Mars Rover landed, it collected specimens from the Martian surface."
What is specimens?
300
Identify the parts of speech for each word in this sentence. "She was happy to stay at the party."
What is She(pronoun), was (verb), happy (adjective), to (preposition) stay (verb), at (preposition), the (article/adjective), party (noun).
300
The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive lines, clauses, or sentences.
What is anaphora?
300
A word that introduces a phrase, which in turn modifies some other word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
400
The nouns in this sentence: "Carmine and I liked to tell scary stories on Halloween."
What is Carmine, stories, and Halloween?
400
The prepositional phrase in this sentence: "The teacher corrected my poor grammar during the study session."
What is during the study session?
400
Identify the part of speech for each word in the sentence. "Oh, Carmine and I often told funny stories at summer camp."
What is oh (interjection), Carmine (noun), and (conjunction), I (pronoun), often (adverb), told (verb), funny (adjective), stories (noun), at (preposition), summer (adjective), camp (noun)
400
The writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness or effectiveness.
What is diction?
400
The word "so" in this sentence: "She ran home so quickly that when she arrived she was exhausted."
What is an adverb?
500
The adverb and conjunction in this sentence: "Time seemed to go by quickly while she was watching television."
What is quickly and while?
500
The indirect object in this sentence: "While picking up the newspaper, my mom gave the delivery boy a tip."
What is boy?
500
Identify the part of speech for each word in this sentence. "Someone usually scolds the cutter and sends him or her to the end of the line."
What is someone (noun), usually (adverb), scolds (verb), the (article), cutter (noun), and (conjunction), sends (verb), him (pronoun), or (conjunction), her (pronoun), to (preposition), the (article), end (noun), of (preposition), the (article), line (noun)
500
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure.
What is antithesis?
500
The parts of speech for the word "program" in the following sentence: "My mom programmed the television to record her favorite programs."
What is a verb and noun?
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