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Parts of Speech
Grammar
Figurative Language
Story Mountain
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100
Words that name people, places, things or ideas. Examples include sandwich, statue, McCook Middle School, independence, and freedom.
What are nouns?
100

Assuming we are not going to eat our family members, there is something wrong with this sentence: "Let's eat grandma!" Re-write the sentence correctly.

Let's eat, grandma!

100
A type of figurative language that compares two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
100
The turning point of the story.
What is the climax?
100
The name for details in writing that describe what is seen, smelled, heard, tasted, or touched.
What are sensory details?
200
This type of noun names specific people, places, or things. Give two examples.
What are proper nouns?
200
Assuming that the people described are not cannibals, there is something wrong with this sentence: "Some people find inspiration in cooking their families and their dogs." What is wrong and how can you re-write the sentence correctly?
Some people find inspiration in cooking, their families, and their dogs.
200
This type of figurative language is giving the qualities of a person to a nonhuman object or animal. Here are two examples: "My computer died!" and "The stars danced in the midnight sky."
What is personification?
200
We use story mountains as an outline for this type of writing. (Expository, narrative, or persuasive?)
What is narrative writing?
200
An onomatopoeia that is commonly attributed to cats, but sometimes in 6th grade writing class we find cows saying it, too.
What is "meow"?
300
This type of noun names feelings, qualities or ideas that cannot be seen, touched, smelled, tasted or heard. Give an example.
What are abstract nouns?
300
Assuming that baby seals cannot actually party on the dance floor, there is something wrong with this sentence: "Stop clubbing, baby seals!" Describe the error and re-write the sentence correctly.
Stop clubbing baby seals! (Using a comma to offset the name of the person or animal being talked to.)
300
An example of this type of figurative language is: "I was lost in a sea of nameless faces."
What is a metaphor?
300
The name for the ending of a story, in which all of the loose ends are "tied up".
What is the resolution?
300

Identify the incorrect transition word and substitute  a better one.

Tim earned an A on the test; even so, Justin also received an A

.

 likewise

400
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun. Identify two examples in the following sentence: The grass was damp after the light rain.
What is an adjective? What are "damp" and "light"?
400
Use "there", "their", and "they're" correctly in a sentence. [100 bonus points for using all three words correctly in a single sentence]
400
Words that imitate sounds. Examples are "buzz", "meow", and "boom". [300 bonus points for spelling the word correctly]
What are onomatopoeias?
400
The five parts of the "story mountain", in order.
What are the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
400
The name for conversations in writing, usually separated from the rest of the text with quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
500
These are words that replace nouns, such as "he", "she", and "it". Give two more examples.
What are pronouns?
500
The name for words that sound alike but have different meanings. An example is their, they're, and there.
What is a homophone?
500
"It's raining cats and dogs!" and "Oh no! You spilled the beans!" are both examples of this type of figurative language.
What are idioms?
500
The name for the beginning of a story, in which the characters and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition?
500

The name for repetition of same sounds at the beginning of words. Write a sentence that is an example.

What is alliteration?