Parts of Speech
The part of speech that is a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun.
What words does a simile use to compare two things.
What is like or as.
What do you call the time and place of a story?
What is the setting.
Fix this sentence. "Me and my friend goed to the store."
My friend and I went to the store.
Who is the main character in Frindle?
Who is Nick.
The part of speech of the word running
What is a verb.
What type of figurative language is this: "The leaves danced in the wind?"
What is personification.
Name one character from a book we read this year.
Answers may vary.
Fix this sentence. "i love to eat pizza."
I love to eat pizza.
What is the theme in the story, One and Only Ivan?
Answers vary. Friendship, determination, never give up.
The word Grand Canyon.
What is a proper noun.
A word that sounds likes its sound.
What is onomatopoeia.
What is the problem or challenge in a story called?
Fix the sentence. "What is the name of that song."
What is the name of that song?
In Smokejumpers, give a detail to support. A smokejumpers job is dangerous.
Answers vary. What is that they jump from planes. They are tethered to the plane. They have to carry lots of important equipment. They are going into wildfires where planes or other people can't reach.
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective.
This is an example of, "The spires and buttes stood tall like sentries?"
What is figurative language or imagery.
What is the term for the series of events that happen in the first half of the story before the climax?
What are the rising action.
Fix this sentence. "tommy he runned real fast."
Tommy ran really fast.
What is the problem in the story, Frindle.
What is that Nick and his whole grade level change the word of a pen to frindle.
Find the adjective in the sentence. "The spooky house creaked loudly."
What is spooky.
What is hyperbole.
What is the name for the turning point or most exciting part of a story?
What is the climax.
Fix the sentence. "I love to read at home. And it relaxes me."
I love to read at home, and it relaxes me.
What is the genre of the story, The Grand Canyon? Where two genres mash together.
What is literary non fiction.