Adjectives and Adverbs
Identify the adverb in this sentence: She sneezed loudly into the soft kleenex.
What is loudly?
This type of punctuation mark is used when writing a ratio or introducing a list.
What is a colon?
This type of figurative language is used to give human characteristics to something non-human, such as in the example "O mischief, thou art swift to enter the thoughts of desperate men!"
What is personification?
A long speech by one actor in a play or movie.
The following words are combined to make the contraction "You've".
Identify the adjectives in this sentence: The adorable puppy quietly napped in the soft bed.
What is adorable and soft?
This type of punctuation mark is used to combine two independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
A figure of speech that combines opposite terms in a brief phrase, such as "jumbo shrimp".
What is an oxymoron?
A speech in which a character in a play expresses thoughts and feelings while being alone on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
If a plural noun ends in "s", an apostrophe should be placed here to show possession.
What is after the "s" in the word?
Identify the adverb in this sentence: The construction workers quickly cleaned up the work site.
What is quickly?
This word should have a semicolon after it in the following sentence: I visited my brother in March then, I visited my sister in December.
What is March?
A figure of speech in which an obvious and deliberate exaggeration is used to illustrate a point, such as saying "...if you have the strength of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight."
What is hyperbole?
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of neighboring words.
What is alliteration?
If a singular common noun ends in "s", this should be done to show possession.
What is add a apostrophe AND another "s"?
Identify the adjectives in this sentence: The excited students quickly ran down the bleachers after the afternoon assembly.
What is excited and afternoon?
This word should have a colon after it in the following sentence: Mr. Feeney gave the class advice before the test "Do your best!"
What is test?
A brief, indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
What is an allusion?
Repetition of vowel sounds within stressed syllables of neighboring words.
What is assonance?
What is "the"?
Identify the adverbs in this sentence: The child crept slowly and softly down the stairs after bedtime.
What is slowly and softly?
What is tomorrow?
A mild or indirect way of saying something that is considered unpleasant, such as using the phrase "lie with thee" instead of "die with you"
What is a euphemism?
"Poor living corpse, clos'd in a dead man's tomb." is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is an oxymoron?
What is "don't worry, be happy"?