Vocabulary
Meaning of the word "illusion"
a. a beautiful painting
b. a false idea
c. to be busy
What is b: a false idea?
The past tense of "to flee"
What is fled?
Hee haw is an example of this type of figurative language.
a. onomatopoeia
b. simile
c. idiom
What is onomatopoeia?
Write the correct abbreviation for West Virginia.
What is WV?
The sentence that tells what a paragraph is about
What is the "topic sentence?"
A word that means "nomadic."
a. vacate
b. amiable
c. vagabond
d. maze
What is "vagabond?"
the prepositional phrase in this sentence: The very small, yet boisterous, child ran circles around her mother.
What is "around her mother?"
Which of the following phrases best demonstrates personification:
a. I am hungry as a bear.
b. It's raining cats and dogs.
c. The tall trees are curtains.
d. the rain was angry.
What is "d. The rain was angry?"
Which of these sentences uses the comma correctly:
a. She said, "I am very tired today.
b. She, said "I am very tired today."
c. She said "I am very tired, today."
What is "a. She said, I am very tired today."?
Words that lead from one idea to the next in a paragraph, or from one paragraph to the next are called:
a. movement words
b. passage words
c. transition words
d. conversion words
What is "c. transition words"?
The meaning of "cede"
a. to withdraw from
b. to yield or formally surrender
c. to keep safe from harm or danger
What is "b. to yield or formally surrender"?
The words in this sentence that are adverbs:
The extremely diligent girl studied very hard for the upcoming math test.
What are: extremely, very, and hard?
The following sentence:
Martha made marvelous masks for Matilda and Margaret.
Is an example of:
A. Alliteration
B. Idiom
C. Metaphor
What is A. Alliteration?
This one-letter word is always capitalized.
What is "I" ?
This part of a paragraph or essay brings the main points together.
What is the conclusion?
The antonym of "titanic":
a. gigantic
b. doomed
c. miniscule
d. vast
What is "c. miniscule"?
The following sentence is simple, complex or compound:
While seeking buried treasure in the Amazon, the treasure hunters discovered a lost civilization.
What is complex?
"My mother is as busy as a bee" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
The word spelled correctly is:
A. inhabitent
B. manuever
C. arid
D. daudle
What is "C. Arid"?
This method is a good way to begin an essay as it catches the reader's attention.
A. Hook
B. Thesis Statement
C. Main Idea
What is "A. Hook"?
A word meaning not clear, or having more than one meaning:
A. compact
B. scant
C. ambiguous
What is C: ambiguous?
The coordinating conjunctions that make up the mnemonic device: FANBOYS
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
An example of hyperbole is:
A. The water splashed all over the top of the car.
B. I am so hungry I would eat dirt right now.
C. The computer argued with me and refused to work.
What is:
B. "I am so hungry I would eat dirt right now."?
Find the subject of this sentence:
After many magical years, she sold her wand shop to a newcomer.
What is "she"?
The topic sentence of a paragraph is generally placed
A. At the beginning of the paragraph
B. At the end of the paragraph
C. In the middle of the paragraph
What is "A. At the beginning of the paragraph"?