Social Studies
What is the largest state in the USA
A person, place or thing
What is a noun?
Alliteration
What is it called when words in a sentence have the same sound?
Name of the document that made the United States a free nation?
What is the Declaration of Independence
A wind storm that touches the ground
What is a tornado?
3 states beginning with the letter A
What are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas?
The most exciting part of a story
What is the climax?
Boom! Ding! Bang!
What is an example of Onomatopoeia?
What you must always do at the beginning of a paragraph
What is indent?
4 directions on a compass rose
What are North, South, East, West?
1 state that borders New York
What is Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont
***Daily Double***
The vital verb in this sentence is:
"The boy screeched as the cicada flew near his ear."
What is screeched.
I could sleep forever!
What is an example of hyperbole?
1. I think everyone should eat green beans because they're delicious.
2. Everyone should buy a Wii and not a PS4.
These sentences are both examples of....
What are opinions?
Energy that is stored with height
What is gravitational energy?
Name 2 renewable energy sources
Solar, wind, water
Parts of Speech
My sister quickly ran during her soccer game
What is an adverb
The car's engine groaned.
What is an example of personification?
Writing a story about something you experienced in first person
What is a personal narrative?
The colored part of the eye. Can be brown, blue, green, etc
What is the iris?
The part of a map used to measure the distance between cities.
What is a map scale?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
I killed two birds with one stone.
Define observation vs inference
What is something you see vs something you guess?
What was the machine Tommy had to be inside of in Small Steps, the year I had Polio?
What is the Iron Lung?