Figurative Language
The figurative language type that compares two different things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
Identify the nouns in the sentence below.
The small dog skipped happily across the yard.
What are dog and yard?
What is it called when you explain what the text is mostly about?
Main Idea
The three punctuation marks that you can use to end a sentence.
What are an exclamation mark, a question mark, and a period?
? ! .
Narrative
The figurative language type that compares two things without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the verb in the sentence below.
The quick cat chased the mouse around the house.
What is chased?
Define the words synonym and antonym.
Synonym means the same.
Antonym means opposite.
What does a complete sentence need to have?
A capital letter at the beginning and punctuation at the end.
In what type of writing, do you establish a claim and use evidence to support it?
Argumentative
Excellent work! You hit the nail on the head.
Hit the nail on the head means you got something exact.
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
The reading skill that requires you to use your background information and what is stated in the text to determine what the author wants you to know.
What is an inference?
The type of word you have when you combine two words by shortening the word and using an apostrophe.
What is a contraction?
In what type of writing do you provide facts about a topic?
Informative essay
The type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to an inanimate object (something not human).
What is personification?
What part of speech is used to describe a verb?
An adverb
What is the root word in the word below? And what is the meaning of the root word?
typography
Graph -- meaning to write
What is the editing mark for deleting something that should not be in the sentence?
A looped line
What is it called when two or more people are having a conversation?
Dialogue
Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence?
Wendy was whistling while waiting for Will.
What is alliteration?
What part of speech replaces a noun in a sentences?
A pronoun
What does the suffix -tion tell you about a word?
The word is a noun.
Why is there an apostrophe in the sentence below?
The boy's cell phone rang in the middle of class.
It shows possession. The cell phone belongs to the boy.
Read the writing prompt below. Is it asking you to write a narrative, argumentative, or informative writing?
Reflect on an important moment in your life. How did it change you? Write a memoir describing this event.
Narrative