Parts of Speech
Story Elements
CSI Holly Ridge
Sentences
Science
100
This is a word that names a person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
100
A person or animal in a story.
What is a character?
100
Every person in the world has these.
What are fingerprints?
100
These two items begin and end a sentence. (be complete for credit).
What is a capital letter and punctuation.
100
A series of steps one follows when solving a problem.
What is the Scientific Method?
200
This is a word that shows an action.
What is a verb?
200
The time a story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
Three fingerprint patterns.
What are whorls, arches, and loops?
200
This type of sentence tells something.
What is a declarative sentence?
200
An educated guess used by scientists and detectives.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This word describes a noun.
What is an adjective.
300
These adjectives describe a character.
What is a trait or character trait?
300
Items left at a crime scene.
What is evidence?
300
This type of sentence gives a command or order.
What is an imperative sentence?
300
An item that dissolves into a liquid.
What is a solvent?
400
This type of word is always capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
400
This compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
400
This piece of technology/equipment allows you to view items that you could not see with the naked eye very closely.
What is a microscope?
400
This sentence conveys (expresses) strong emotion.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
400
An item that sinks.
What is negatively buoyant?
500
This type of noun reflects things that are general.
What is a common noun?
500
This literary device compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
500
The area of science concerned with the law.
What is forensics?
500
This type of sentence is also known as a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
500
An item that floats
What is positively buoyant?
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