Spelling
What is the name of the two wheeled form of transportation for many students? (spell it on the board correctly!)
What is bicycle?
What is the term given to the element when the initial sound of a word, beginning either with a consonant or a vowel, are repeated in close succession?
What is alliteration?
What is the form of spelling for the possessive pronoun to show something belongs to them? (spell it on the board correctly!)
What is their?
What is the name of the literary device that is something in itself, and it also suggests something deeper?
What is a symbol?
What is the spelling for the head administrator of our school? (spell it on the board correctly!)
What is principal?
What is the first step in the writing process?
What is prewriting (or planning/brainstorming)?
What is the literary device often found in poetry where extreme exaggeration is used.
What is hyperbole?
What is a moment of great intensity in the plot of a literary work, generally bringing events to a head, leading to the falling action and conclusion?
What is climax?
What is the correct spelling of the month that falls between January and March?
What is February? (with a capital F)
What is the last paragraph of an essay usually called?
What is conclusion?
What literary device is used in the following poem:
The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
by Langston Hughes
What is alliteration (or personification)?
What is the genre of fiction that uses elements of science and technology to create futuristic stories?
What is science fiction ?
Double Jeopardy!
What is the part of writing traits where one's personal style or flavor is expressed?
What is voice?
DOUBLE JEAPORDY!
In prose, a writer uses sentences and paragraphs to organize their ideas, whereas in poetry, a poet uses ________________ and ____________.
What are lines and stanzas?
What is the perspective from which a story is told; may be first person, third person, or less commonly, second person?
What is point-of-view?