Figurative Language
There was a friendly fire by the forest.
What is an alliteration? Friendly fire forest
Identify the dangling modifier. Hungry, the pizza was devoured.
We were hungry so the pizza was devoured.
What is a simple sentence?
What is an independent clause?
A primary use for this punctuation mark is for list-making.
What are colons?
The narrator is the storyteller.
What is first person point of view?
He was like an angel.
What is a simile? Comparison using like or as.
What grammar concept needs to be fixed in this sentence? (What are the items you need to fix called)? Their are to many students who are unable two tie too laces.
What is a homophone? There are too many students who are unable to tie two laces.
What is a compound sentence?
What is two independent clauses linked with a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS)?
This punctuation mark creates suspense or shows where words are missing.
What is an ellipses?
The narrator is in the story, involved with other characters.
What is second person?
She is a wrecking ball.
What is a metaphor? A comparison not using like or as.
Identify the verb tense: passive or active: The patient’s results were read by the nurse’s assistant.
What is passive? The nurse read the patient’s results.
What is a complex sentence?
What is at least one dependent and one independent clause combined.
This punctuation mark can combine coordinate adjectives.
What are hyphens?
The narrator is outside of the story, following one character’s thoughts.
What is third person limited?
I want to be in the room where it happens, he told her with a smile.
What is an allusion? Alluding to other plays, poems, or literary works.
Identify the appositive: Dr. Barker, the school’s psychologist, makes sure all of the students have a voice.
The school’s psychologist is the appositive.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
What is two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses?
This punctuation mark combines two independent clauses and takes the place of a period.
What is a semi-colon?
The narrator is outside of the story, following every characters’ thoughts.
What is third person omniscient?
I am starving.
What is a hyperbole? An extreme exaggeration.
Fix the misplaced modifier: Having finished the assignment, Jill turned on the TV.
Jill turned on the TV and finished the assignment.
Lizards are reptiles, and there are over 6,000 different kinds of lizards.
What is a compound sentence?
FANBOYS
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
The point of view most of F451 is written in.
What is third person limited?