Parts of Speech
Punctuation
Poetry
Literary Devices
Famous Authors
100
This part of speech refers to any person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
100

Used in between indendent clause (and one of Ms. Starr's favorite underused punctuation marks)

What is a semi-colon?

100

the act of analyzing a poem's meter by marking its stressed and unstressed syllables

What is scansion?

100
The crazy codger’s car crashed into the telephone pole.
What is alliteration?
100
Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Othello.
Who is Shakespeare?
200
Words that are used to express actions.
What are verbs?
200
This punctuation mark is used to show strong emotion.
What is an exclamation mark?
200
A group of lines forming a division in a poem.
What is a Stanza?
200
Difference or contrast between appearance and reality or saying one thing and meaning another.
What is irony?
200

Sula, The Bluest Eye, Beloved

Who is Toni Morrison?

300
A word that describes or modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
300
Used in contractions for should not or they are.
What is an apostrophe?
300

Author of The Odyssey

Who is Homer

300
The imitation of sounds by words (buzz or bang).
What is onomatopoeia?
300

20th Century Boys, Monster, Pluto

Who is Naoki Urasawa?

400
Swiftly, softly, frightfully.
What are adverbs?
400
Part of your intestine or something used to introduce a list.
What is a colon?
400

All three songwriters on the Prescribed IB Book List 

Who are Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Kendrick Lamar?

400
To give an inanimate object a characteristic of something living.
What is Personification?
400

The Dead Zone, Cat’s Eyes, It


Who is Stephen King?

500
This type of word takes the place of a noun.
What a pronoun?
500
Used to show dialogue.
What are quotation marks?
500

Full Name of poet we studied last year

Who is Seamus Heaney

500
An indirect comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
500

The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn, Tom Sawyer

Who is Mark Twain?

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