Sentence Types
What makes a complex sentence?
What is an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses?
Which type of figurative language is the sentence below?
I'm drowning under all this paperwork!
What is a hyperbole?
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
List the 5 sensory details.
What is sight, sound, touch, hear, taste?
The way the author feels is _____________.
What is tone?
What type of sentence is made of a subject, verb, and complete thought?
What is a simple sentence?
What type of figurative language is the sentence below?
She was fishing for compliments.
What is a metaphor?
The woman can't literally cast a line and fish for compliments.
Give an example of a proper noun.
Student answers will vary. Names, places, and specific things can be answers.
What type of figurative language uses sensory details to vividly describe something?
What is imagery?
The way YOU feel while reading or watching something is ____________.
What is mood?
Identify the sentence below.
Everyone was busy, so I went to see The Avengers alone.
What is a compound sentence?
What type of figurative language is the sentence below?
The Dallas Stars can totally win if they score a potential power play!
What is alliteration?
Identify the proper noun(s) in the sentence below.
Max and I walked through the park and met up with my husband Karl.
Max, I, Karl.
Which sensory details are shown in the sentence below?
The twisted features of the Jack-O-Lantern leered at me from the doorway. As Maggie and I stepped towards the door, a witch cackled at us. A skeleton then jumped out of the bushes causing Maggie to scream so loudly, my eardrums burst.
What is sight and sound?
How is mood determined in literature? (Stories, novels, poems).
What is word choice, imagery, setting?
Which of the sentences below is a compound sentence?
* My parents and grandparents took a trip to Spain and Portugal last month.
* Because of the heavy rain, my car hydroplaned on the road.
* Everyone was busy, so I went to the movie alone.
What is Everyone was busy, so I went to the movie alone.
What type of figurative language is the example below?
I wanted to get money but the ATM died.
What is personification?
Identify the common noun(s) in the sentence below.
My absolute favorite time of year is fall. It seems to run in my family as Grandmas loves it too!
What sensory detail is in the sentence below?
After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow.
What is feel/touch?
She hesitated, listening for sounds of the creature. The forest seemed empty, but she could sense something else out there. Something watching and waiting.
What is the mood of the passage?
What is suspenseful, creepy, cautious
Identify the independent AND dependent clauses in the sentence below.
After being apart for years, he still had feelings for her.
Independent: He still had feelings for her.
Dependent: After being apart for years
Explain why author's use figurative language.
What is to engage the reader and allow them to visualize?
Identify the proper AND common nouns in the sentence below.
In 1912, the Titanic set sail from New York City and the ship sank after hitting and iceberg.
What is:
Proper Nouns: Titanic, New York City
Common Nouns- ship, iceberg
Use the sensory details (all 5!) to describe swimming.
Student answers will vary.
List the 4 types of Point of View.
What pronouns are used for each? Provide at least 2 pronouns for each POV.
What is:
first person (I, me, my)
second person (you)
third person limited (he, she, they, them)
third person omniscient (they, them, she, he, him)
point of view?