Grammar Jammar
Word Categories
Poetry Terms
Literary Elements
Leftovers
100
This is a person, place and thing.
What is a Noun?
100
This type of word is made when two words are joined to form a new word like backpack and sandbox.
What is a compound word?
100
This is the division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains.
What is a stanza?
100

What do we call the people or animals in a story?

What are characters?

100
This type of writing contains true facts, & tells about real people, places, objects, etc.
What is non-fiction?
200
This type of word can express action.
What is a verb?
200
These are words that mean the same thing like small and tiny.
What is a synonym?
200

What does the idiom "raining cats and dogs" mean in this sentence?
We couldn’t go outside for recess because it was raining cats and dogs!
A. There were animals falling from the sky
B. It was a light drizzle
C. It was raining very heavily
D. The sky looked like a dog and cat

C. It was raining very heavily.

200

What is the setting of a story?
 

What is where and when the story takes place?

200

What is the main idea of a story?

What is the most important point or what the story is mostly about?

300

2. Which word is an adjective in this sentence?
She wore a red dress to the party.
 

What is red?
300
These are words with opposite meanings like beginning and end.
What is an antonym?
300
This is phrases or words in a stanza.
What is lines?
300

This is a short story (often with animal characters) with a moral.

A. poem

B. biography

C. fable

D. nonfiction

C. What is a Fable?

300

In the sentence "She felt weary after the long hike," what does the word "weary" mean?
 

What is tired?

400

What is the proper noun in this sentence?

Sarah went to Disneyland with her family. 

What is Disneyland?

400
These words sound exactly alike, but have different spellings and meanings like there and their.
What is homophones?
400

Question: Read this line: "The moon smiled down at the sleepy town."
What poetic device is being used here?
A. Rhyme
B. Simile
C. Personification
D. Alliteration

What is personification?

400

What is the plot of the story?

What is the beginning, middle, and end?

400

In the sentence "The kitten was timid and hid under the couch when the door opened," what does "timid" mean?
 

What is shy or scared?

500

Which word in this sentence is a pronoun that replaces a person's name?
After Adriana finished her homework, she helped her brother clean the room. 

she

500
This word is two words combined with an apostrophe such as can't, wouldn't, I'd, won't. When writing this type of word the main word usually doesn't change except in the following words: will not becoming won't and cannot becoming can't.
What is contraction?
500
This is repetition of consonant sounds at the BEGINNING of words
What is alliteration?
500

What is the theme of a story?
What is the message, lesson, or moral the author wants you to learn?

What is the message, lesson, or moral the author wants you to learn?

500
This is what the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction are called.
What is dialogue?
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