"Strawberries are red." The simple subject of this sentence is....
What is strawberries
100
Words that have the same ending sound
What are rhyming words?
100
A talking pig, an excited tea pot, or a sad table
What is personification?
100
-Min-, gives this meaning as the root of the following words: minuscule, minimum, and miniature.
What is small?
100
Context clues help understand unknown words. These two words help understand the meaning of crocus. "The crocus opened slowly to reveal purple petals."
What is opened and petals?
200
"James and Brutus were the best of friends." James and Brutus are the... of the sentence.
What is compound subject
200
Regular has 3
What are syllables?
200
"Life is like a box of chocolates," for example
What is a simile?
200
-Mal- means bad or evil. Malnourished means...
What is badly nourished or fed
200
"Shadows on the wall
Noises down the hall
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Bad dogs barking loud
Big ghosts in a cloud
Life doesn’t frighten me at all."
Which lines rhyme?
What is wall, hall, all and loud, cloud
300
This type of sentence gives a command. For example, "Put your jacket on a hanger."
What is imperative
300
Stories have paragraphs. Poems have....
What are stanzas?
300
an author's words that appeal to the five senses
What is imagery or sensory language
300
The suffix -ness means the state or condition of and is used to form nouns. This noun would mean the state of being happy.
What is happiness?
300
"The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there"
Sulkily means... happily, unhappily, brightly
What is unhappily
400
"We won!" is an example of a sentence with a lot of emotion.
What is exclamatory
400
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables form this in a poem.
What is the rhythm?
400
"A blanket of snow covered the town." for example
What is a metaphor?
400
A flower is desolate when it stands alone. A person feels desolate when they are....
What is alone or by themselves
400
Poetry is often called music of the...
What is soul?
500
"Leaves are green." A statement of fact is also called a...
What is declarative sentence?
500
Steve stands staring straight is an example
What is alliteration?
500
the 2 types of figurative language that compare 2 different things
What are metaphor and simile
500
Scarcely means only slightly different. Given this information would the final score of a game being 56-45 mean that a team "scarcely" won?
What is no.
500
Using words around an unknown word to help guess the meaning.