Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
This technique compares two things using "like" or "as", such as "as brave as a lion".
What is a simile?
This punctuation mark goes at the end of a question.
What is a question mark?
In the story, a girragundji is this small green animal.
What is a green tree frog?
This is the main character of the story.
Who is Lief?
This part of speech is a doing word, like run, jump or eat.
What is a verb?
"The wind whispered through the trees" is an example of giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
This punctuation mark shows possession (Jake's bike) or a missing letter (don't).
What is an apostrophe?
This author wrote My Girragundji.
Who is Boori Monty Pryor?
Lief received this weapon from his father as a birthday gift.
What is a sword?
This part of speech describes a noun, like big, red or funny.
What is an adjective?
"The classroom was a zoo" is an example of this, which says one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
Complete the sentence with the correct word: "___ going to win the trophy!" (their / there / they're)
What is "They're"?
Paintings, dances and songs are three ways Aboriginal communities do this.
How do Aboriginal people tell stories?
This is the number of gems that must be collected.
What is seven (7)?
Words like he, she, they and it take the place of a noun. They are called this.
What are pronouns?
"I've told you a million times!" is an example of this type of deliberate exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
This is the tense of the sentence "She will walk to school tomorrow."
What is future tense?
In this traditional Aboriginal ceremony, smoke from burning native plants is used to cleanse a place or people and to welcome visitors.
What is a smoking ceremony?
This magic object has kept Deltora safe from invasion by the evil Shadow Lord.
What is the Magic Belt?
Words like can't, won't and shouldn't that join words with an apostrophe to replace missing letters.
What are contractions?
Placing two contrasting things side by side to highlight their differences, like a tiny mouse next to a huge elephant, is called this.
What is juxtaposition?
This punctuation mark can join two closely related sentences into one, as in "I love reading; it takes me to new worlds."
What is a semicolon?
Boori Monty Pryor belongs to this Aboriginal group.
What is the Kunggandji people?
The king's Chief Advisor, Prandine, was tossed out of the tower window after this person used a very clever trick.
Who is Sharn?