Parts of speech
Table, kitchen, love, etc.
What are nouns?
This is used at the end of a sentence.
What is a period or a full stop?
Comparing two things figuratively without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The tiger tossed the carcass, tentatively across the terrain. What is this an example of?
What is alliteration?
The United States presidential election took place on November 3rd, 2020.
What is inform?
Action words
What are verbs?
This is used after an interjection.
What is an exclamation point (!)?
Comparing things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
Bang! Boom! Pow! What are these examples of?
What is onomatopoeia?
Three men disappeared after their boat fell off radar. The coast guard is still looking for them.
What is inform?
Days of the week, month, name of cities, people's names, etc.
What are proper nouns?
This is what we use when we begin a sentence as well as all proper nouns.
What is a capital letter?
Using human traits on inanimate objects.
What is personification?
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What is an allusion?
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
What is to entertain?
She wore a beautiful coat, but it was so long that it covered her muscular legs. The italicized words.
What are adjectives?
We loved the beach, we were thirsty because we had nothing to drink. Fix this sentence.
What is: We loved the beach, but we were thirsty because we had nothing to drink?
Over exaggerating an emotion or action.
What is hyperbole?
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
What is ABAB rhyme scheme?
This is the most important election of our lives. If you want affordable healthcare, economic recovery and a way out of the pandemic, vote for Joe Biden!
What is to persuade?
Signifies location or time
What is a preposition?
Without her cape, she was powerless. What kind of phrase is in italics?
What is a subordinate clause?
When you refer to another piece of literature or a portion of history in your poem or story.
What is allusion?
I was ravenous as an anaconda, roaming the desert for 40 days and 40 nights.
Name the 3 examples of figurative language.
What are simile, hyperbole and allusion.
"...the peculiarities of the Gregorian calendar, we’re left with a sort of phantom anniversary. A date that wavers out of reach. A date that we can never quite adequately clock. Within twenty-four hours of that first death, dozens of suspected cases emerged at a nearby nursing home, Life Care Center of Kirkland."
What is to inform?