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Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
Author's Purpose
Text Structure
Spellings
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"He ate like a pig." This sentence is an example of this F.L
What is a simile?
100
A proper noun always start with this.
What is a capital letter?
100
An author writes non fiction for this purpose.
What is informative?
100
An author uses this to help the reader visualize.
What is description?
100
This is a contraction of "will not"
What is won't?
200
An author uses this to give human qualities to animals or things.
What is personification
200
Nouns are names fro these three categories.
What are people, places and things.
200
"The Twits" was written to do this to the reader.
What is entertain?
200
This is used to show a time line.
What is sequence of events?
200
The plural of puppy is this.
What is puppies?
300
These two words changes a simile into a metaphor.
What are "as" and "like"?
300
An action word is known as this.
What is a verb.
300
An advertisment is designed to do this.
What is persuade?
300
"It was raining and I GOT SOAKED." The capitalized part of this is an example of this text structure.
What is the Cause?
300
"The pencil belongs to Bob." Write this sentence using a possesive.
What is Bob's pencil?
400
"The snow is a blanket over the town." This sentence is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
400
Describing how you do something is this part of speech.
what is an adverb?
400
If you want people to vote for you, then you need to be very good at this type of writing.
What is persuasive writing?
400
This text structure is used to show conflict and resolution.
What is problem and solution?
400
"Mom parked the car over ________" What word should be used in the blank space?
What is there?
500
This idiom has a body part and means to joke about or tease.
What is "Pulling your leg?"
500
"The BIG, BLACK cat sat on the RAGGED mat." The capitalized words are these types of P. of S.
What are adjectives?
500
Scholastic News is written mainly for this purpose.
What is to inform?
500
This text structure uses the words "both, same as, also."
What is compare ?
500
"Let me know when ______________ ready to leave." One of these words go in the blank space: there, their, they're.
What is they're?