Children's Authors
Language Techniques
Grammar
Define it
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100

This author wrote the Harry Potter series of books

Who is J.K Rowling?

100
This language technique uses like or as to compare two things.

What is a simile?

100

This part of speech is a 'doing word'?

What is a verb?

100

This is called a 'kura' in te reo Māori

What is a school?

100

The full-stop goes here in the sentence, "the dog barked loudly" 

Where is, 'at the end'?

200

This author wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Who is Roald Dahl?

200

This is the technique used in "she sells sea shells on the sea shore"

What is alliteration? 
200

This type of word is a person, place, thing or idea.

What is a noun?

200

This word means something that is not true but widely believed.

What is a myth?

200

This punctuation mark is used at the end of a question.

What is a question mark?

300

This author wrote 'The Famous Five' series

Who is Enid Blyton?

300

This language feature is used to give human characteristics to non human things.

What is personification?

300

This is a word which ends in '-ly' and gives information about a verb.

What is an adverb?

300

This adjective describes being awestruck.

What is flabbergasted? 

300

This punctuation is used to show quotations from texts

What are 'speech' or 'quotation' marks?

400

This famous author created the Chronicles of Narnia.

Who is C.S Lewis?

400

The parts of poetry are not called paragraphs, but these.

What are stanzas?

400
This sentence contains two clauses.

What is a compound sentence?

400

This word means 'to deliberately make something unclear or difficult to understand'

What is 'obfuscate'? 

400

The exclamation mark goes here, in the sentence "Hello, Steve" said Ivan.

Where is, 'after Steve'?

500

This author wrote "The Butcher and the Wren"

Who is Alaina Urquhart?

500

This technique is at play when two language features contradict each other.

What is oxymoron?

500
(This) grammar is also known as modern grammar

What is descriptive grammar?

500

This is the state of being productive.

What is 'fecundity'? 

500

This is the name of the punctuation mark that combines the question mark and exclamation mark into one symbol?

What is an interrobang?