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Parts of Speech
The Essay
Grammar Rules
Figures of Speech
The Narrative
100
Person, Place, or Thing
What is a noun?
100
The first paragraph of an essay.
What is the introduction?
100
In order to be a complete sentence, it must include one of each of these.
What is a subject and a verb?
100
Compares two things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
The turning point of a story. The height of excitement.
What is the climax?
200
Describes a noun
What is an adjective?
200
The number of paragraphs that make up the body of an essay.
What is two-to-three?
200
This ends every sentence.
What is a punctuation mark?
200
An extreme exaggeration?
What is a hyperbole?
200
The events which lead up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
300
An action word
What is a verb?
300
States the main idea of each paragraph, usually the first sentence.
What is the topic sentence?
300
Used to signal words or phrases spoken by a character.
What are quotation marks?
300
Consecutive words with the same beginning letter or sound-a tongue twister.
What is alliteration?
300
Where the story takes place
What is the setting?
400
Describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
400
One sentence found in the introduction that summarizes the entire essay.
What is the thesis statement?
400
Two complete sentences combined to make one sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
400
A comparison of two things by saying something is something else.
What is a metaphor?
400
The ending of the story.
What is the resolution?
500
A substitute for a noun
What is a pronoun?
500
First, Secondly, In addition, Finally.
What are transition words/phrases?
500
One complete and one incomplete sentence joined together using a subordinating conjunction.
What is a complex sentence?
500
Words which suggest the sound of which they are describing.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The message or moral of the story.
What is the coda?