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Point of view
Parts of speech
Figurative language
Grammar
Punctuation
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...with a walk into his closet, his thoughts took him down a lonesome desert road, far, far away in Old Mexico... Skippyjon Jones by J. Schachner What point of view is this passage told from?
What is third person?
100
The dog ran down the street. What is the verb in the sentence?
What is ran?
100

His fur shined black as night. What is this an example of?

What is a simile? Remember that a simile uses like or as to compare two things.

100

Which word does not use the article an? 

orange 

animal 

people 

elk

What is people?

100
What punctuation mark should end this sentence____
What is a question mark?
200
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. The Lightning Thief by R. Riordan What point of view is this written from?
What is the first person?
200
What are the nouns in the following sentence? Rex fell out the window.
What are Rex and window?
200

The angry clouds marched across the sky. 

What type of figurative language is this an example of?

What is personification?

200

Fill in the missing word(s): ___________many ways to solve the math problem. 

There is 

There are 

Their

What is There are?

200
What punctuation marks do we use to show that someone is speaking?
What are quotation marks? remember that we use quotation marks to indicate dialogue when writing
300
If someone says "hello" to me, I suddenly feel so shy. Instead of waving back at them, I hide my face and walk on by. The Way I Feel by J. Cain What point of view is this passage written from?
What is the first person?
300
What is the adjective in the following sentence? Would Rex like an enormous hamburger?
What is enormous?
300

Bang! The cup fell.  

What type of figurative language is in this example?

What is onomatopoeia?

300

Fill in the missing word(s): Yesterday I ___________chocolate milk for breakfast. 

drink 

drank 

have drunk

What is drank?

300
I love to rockclimb hike and swim when we go to the lake. How many commas does this sentence need?
What are 2 commas? ...rockclimb, hike, and swim...
400
If his friends wanted to go fishing, P.J. wanted to go swimming. No matter what his friends wanted to do, P.J. always had to have his own way. P.J. the Spoiled Bunny by M. Sadler What point of view is this passage written from?
What is the third person?
400
The pink dress floated lazily on the old clothesline. What are the adjectives in the sentence?
What are pink and old?
400

When it was his turn to bat, he felt like he had butterflies in his stomach. What type of figurative language is this an example of?

What is an idiom?

400

Fill in the missing word: Dad_______the mail on the kitchen counter. 

sat 

sit 

set

What is sat?

400
What goes at the end of an exclamatory sentence? Why would you use one of these?
What is an exclamation mark or exclamation point?
500
Early the next morning, Betsy packed her lunch pail with two helpings of Mom's pies. Then she led the sheep up Rosenrise. Betsy Who Cried Wolf! by G.C. Levine
What is the third person?
500

The cat and dog playfully chased each other all over the playground and field. What is the adverb in this sentence?

What is playfully?

500

What type of figurative language is demonstrated in the following lines of the poem, "The Raven", by Edgar Allan Poe?

While I nodded, nearly 

napping, suddenly there

came a tapping...


What is alliteration?

500

Which homophone means to select? 

a. chews 

b. choose

What is choose?

500

Where the comma goes in the date:

January 21 2020

What is after 21st?