Parts of Speech
This is an action word.
What is a verb?
This is a comparison using the words like, as, or than.
What is a simile?
Some would argue that Odysseus had too much of this when he taunted Polyphemus.
What is pride?
These go at the beginning and end of a direct quote.
What are quotation marks?
Roald Dahl’s Boy is this type of text.
Hint: French for memory.
What is a memoir?
These can be common or proper.
What are nouns?
“The food was calling my name” is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
Considering Dr. Lazear allowed himself to be bitten by mosquitoes infected with yellow fever in order to save lives, we might call him this.
What is brave (or similar)?
If you are putting a part of the text into your own words, it is called this.
What is paraphrasing?
This is a word meaning a piece of a larger text.
What is an excerpt, passage, or chapter?
These often end in -ly.
What are adverbs?
“I’ve said this a million times!” is an example of this type of language.
What is hyperbole?
This is one character trait we could use to describe Mrs. Pratchett from Dahl’s text Boy.
What is cruel, mean (or similar)?
These two things go inside of parenthesis at the end of a quote.
What are the author's name and the page/paragraph number?
Poems are separated into groups of lines called these.
What are stanzas?
The word three in the sentence below functions as this part of speech:
I have three brothers.
What is an adjective?
The idiom “got cold feet” literally means this.
What is to be afraid to do something (or similar)?
This is one character trait we could use to describe Prometheus.
What is stubborn, careless, considerate, etc?
This first sentence in a body paragraph is called this.
What is a topic sentence?
The words characters say to each other in texts is called this.
What is dialogue?
These words connect clauses (groups of words) in a sentence.
What are conjunctions?
“You are the sun in my sky” is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
This is one way in which we learn about a character.
What is actions, speech, thoughts, feelings (any are acceptable)?
This is what you must first state and then prove in an argumentative essay.
What is a claim/thesis/argument?
Foreshadowing is when an author does this.
What is hints at something that will happen later (or similar)?