Parts of Speech
Grammar
Figurative Language
Text Structure
Ms. Hemmingsen Trivia
100

A person, place, or thing.

What is a noun?

100

The contraction for the answer:

Could + Not =?

What is "couldn't"?

100

Type of figurative language when there is the repetition of a letter in words that are in close proximity to each other.

What is alliteration?

100


Which type of text structure describes an issue and at least one way to solve it?

A. Chronological
B. Cause & Effect
C. Problem & Solution
D. Compare/Contrast


C.

100

What is Ms. Hemmingsen's favorite color? 

Orange

200

A part of speech that stands in the place of a name or noun. 


What is a pronoun?

200

I would like another_______of cake.

A. piece

B. peace

C. peece

D. peez

A
200

The figurative language of making an inanimate object or animal have humanistic features. 

Example: The book sang to me when I opened it. 


What is personification?

200

Directions for building a birdhouse are an example of which text structure?

A. compare and contrast

B. order of importance

C. description

D. sequence

D. 

200

What kind of dog does Ms. Hemmingsen have?

Rex: Germen Shepard and Labrador Retriever mix

300

A part of speech that is an action.

example: The girl jumped.

What is a verb?

300

Which sentence is written correctly?

A. The Bird. The nest. The Egg.

B. Happy pie eats chocolate

C. The dog chased the cat down the street.

D. the girl ate the whole pizza

C. 

300

The figurative language used to be very dramatic and exaggerate something that could never happen. 

Example: That building can touch the clouds.

What is hyperbole?

300

Using characteristics, features, and examples. 

What is description?

300

Where did Ms. Hemmingsen grow up? (town, state)

Fosston, Minnesota

400

This part of speech is when a word is used to describe a noun or noun phrase. 

Example: That dog is silly. 

What is an adjective?

400

What are the base word and the suffix for the word REMARKABLE?

A. remarkab and -le

B. remarka and -ble

C. remark and -able

D. remarke and -able

C.

400

The figurative language comparison of two unlike things suggests a similarity between the two items. 

Example: Life is a rollercoaster. 

What is a metaphor?

400

This text structure gives readers a chronological of events or a list of steps in a procedure.

Example: A book about the American Revolution might list the events leading to the war. In another book, the steps involved in harvesting blue crabs might be told.

What is order/sequence?
400

What is Ms. Hemmingsen's LEAST favorite food?

Mushrooms

500

This part of speech is used when words link other words, phrases, or clauses together.

Example: but, because, so, and...

What is a conjunction?

500

Which of these uses the comma correctly?

A. I want to buy the new jacket but it is too expensive.

B. I want to buy the new, jacket but it is too expensive.

C. I, want to buy the new jacket, but it is, too expensive.

D. I want to buy the new jacket, but it is too expensive.

D.

500

Figurative language is used as an expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements.

Example: She was under the weather.

What is an idiom?

500

This type of text examines the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, ideas, etc.

Example: A book about ancient Greece may explain how Spartan women were different from Athenian women.

What is compare and contrast?
500

What is Ms. Hemmingsen's dream vacation location?

Greece