6th Grade Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
Words that are used to name people, places, animals, ideas and things
WHAT IS A METAPHOR
direct comparison of things without using like or as
What is a an alley?
A narrow street or area located behind buildings.
Who is the main character in the story "Eleven"?
What is the definition of contrast ?
Looking at the differences between two or more objects.
What is words that show action in a sentence.
Adjective
What is a simile?
What is comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'
What is a germ ?
A very small living thing that causes sickness.
Which birthday is it for Rachel?
What is Eleventh
What is a conflict?
A problem a character is having with themselves.
What is stands in for nouns in a sentence?
Pronoun
What is gives human characteristics to non-human things?
Personification
Rachel wished she was invisible. What did she mean by that?
Unable to be seen.
How did Rachel describe the sweater?
What is ugly, maybe a thousand years old, stretched out
What is compare?
What is similar and/or different between two things.
What is conjunction?
Join words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence.
a huge exaggeration
what is hyperbole
Silly behavior
Who claimed that the sweater belonged to Rachel?
Sylvia Saldivar
What does it mean to infer ?
Make an educated guess based on evidence.
What is up, over, against, by, for, into, close to, out of, apart from.
Preposition
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare describes Mercutio's stab wound as “ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch.”
What is an understatement
In the story the sweater was described as raggedy? What is the meaning of raggedy?
In shabby condition.
What age does Rachel feel throughout the story?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8,9, & 10
Why the author wrote the passage.
To persuade
To entertain
To inform.