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Which poetic device is used in: “The baby is as quiet as a mouse.”
Simile
What is the plural of book?
books
What is the collective noun for a group of fish?
School
What type of sentence is: “Where is my pencil?”
Question
What tense is used in: “Sam played soccer yesterday.”
Simple past tense
Which poetic device is used in: “The wind whispered through the trees.”
Personification
What is the plural of baby?
babies
Choose the correct FANBOYS conjunction: “I wanted to play, ___ it was raining.”
but
Identify the adjective: “The small, brown dog barked.”
small, brown
Identify the preposition: “The shoes are beside the bed.”
beside
Identify the poetic device: “Peter picked purple peppers.”
Alliteration
What is the plural of child?
children
Identify the conjunction: “Mia and Ben studied hard, so they passed the test.”
so
Change this sentence to the simple future: “Liam walks to school.”
Liam will walk to school tomorrow.
Identify the adverb: “The tortoise walked slowly across the road.”
slowly
Identify the poetic device: “The moon was a silver ball in the sky.”
Metaphor
Complete the sentence by adding a collective noun: “A ___ of players walked onto the field.”
Team
Which FANBOYS conjunction best completes the sentence?
“I was tired, ___ I finished my homework.”
yet / but
Change "take" to the past tense.
took
Identify the two prepositions: “The cat jumped onto the table and hid under the chair.”
onto, under
What poetic device is used in “The classroom was as busy as a bee hive”? Explain your answer.
Simile; it compares two things using as.
Identify the prefix, root word and suffix in unfriendly.
Prefix: un-; root: friend; suffix: -ly
Find five different parts of speech in:
“Yesterday, the three happy children quickly ran into the garden.”
(adverb, adjective, verb, article, noun, preposition)
Yesterday = adverb (of time)
the = article (x2)
three + happy = adjectives
children = noun (irregular plural)
quickly = adverb
ran = verb
into = preposition
garden = noun
Correct the sentence:
“Yesterday me and Tom goes to the shop.”
Yesterday, Tom and I went to the shop.
What poetic device is used in “The angry storm punched the windows”? Explain your answer.
Personification; the storm is given a human action.