The type of figurative language found in the following sentence: The cockadoodle doo awoke me early this morning."
What is onomatopoeia?
100
This type of verb shows a state of being.
What is linking verb?
100
The stage that involves gathering ideas and brainstorming.
What is pre-writing or planning?
100
This reference gives word definitions, parts of speech, and pronunciations.
What is a dictionary?
100
The subject noun in the following sentence: In the mornings, the students usually eat breakfast with their friends in the lunchroom.
What is "STUDENTS?"
200
The dog is compared to this in the following sentence: The waves crashed on the beach like a large hairy dog rolling in the sand.
What are the waves?
200
The verb in the following sentence: Yesterday, after class, I folded up my papers.
What is folded?
200
The stage that involves typing or writing your final draft.
What is publishing?
200
This reference lists synonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
200
The interjection in the following sentence: Wow! She read 3 books during spring break!
What is "WOW!"
300
The following sentence uses this type of figurative language: The sweet smelling cinnamon buns scented the school!
What is alliteration?
300
The tense used in the following sentence: Dr. Rose sang the national anthem at the ceremony last night.
What is past tense?
300
The stage that involves rereading your rough draft to make sure it makes sense and rearranging, deleting, or adding writing to make it better.
What is revising?
300
Google, Yahoo, and Bing, are all examples of these tools, which help you find information.
What are search engines?
300
The adjectives (there are two) that modify bird in the following sentence: I took a picture of the exotic bird.
What is "THE EXOTIC?"
400
The type of figurative language in the following sentence: The teachers at LJE are as wise as owls.
What is a similie?
400
The verb phrase for the present tense verb "WRITE" that fits in the blank: Because we ______________________________ so many essays, we are now exceptional authors!
What is have written?
400
This stage involves writing your piece in paragraph form for the first time.
What is drafting?
400
This doorway to information contains over 150 databases and is extremley helpful when looking for scholarly articles to use in your research projects. Mrs. Wood sends us the password to use this every month.
What is Galileo?
400
The adverb that modifies read in the following sentence: The teacher was happy to see the students read enthusiastically during class.
What is enthusiastically?
500
When an author exaggerates, he/she uses this type of figurative language.
What is a hyperbole?
500
The simple predicate in the following sentence: After the race, the drivers celebrated with their fans at the speedway.
What is celebrated?
500
This stage involves checking for spelling and punctuation errors.
What is editing?
500
These reference texts are large sets of books that contain a great deal of information about a variety of topics.
What are encyclopedias?
500
The coordinating conjunction in the following sentence: She was grumpy, so her mom made her take a nap.