Potpourri
Language
Literature
Parts of Speech
Grammar
100

This is what we call the person who wrote the text or book.

Author

100

How many letters are there in the English Alphabet?

26 letters 

100

This term is used to describe a story that is made up and not based on real events.

Fiction

100

This part of speech identifies a person, place, or thing.

A.  adjective

B.  adverb

C.  preposition

D. noun

D.  noun

100

This symbol is used at the end of a sentence to tell the reader the sentence is finished.

A "period"

200

The last book of the Bible.

Revelation

200

This type of language uses only your fingers and hands to communicate.

Sign language

200

A book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically.

A.  Dictionary

B.  Bible

C.  Encyclopedia

D.  Thesaurus


C.  Encyclopedia

200

This part of speech identifies an action.

A.  adverb

B.  adjective

C.  verb

D.  preposition

C.  Verb

200

What is the plural of a woman.

Women
300

An invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and deals especially with human experience through a usually connected sequence of events.

A.  Autobiography

B.  Short story

C.  Novel

D.  Poem

C.  Novel

300

Someone who can speak two languages is called this

Bilingual

300

This tragic Shakespeare play involves two young lovers?

"Romeo and Juliet"

300

This part of speech is used to describe a noun.

A.  adjective

B.  adverb

C.  preposition

D.  verb

A.  adjective

300

This symbol is placed at the end of a sentence that asks you something.

A "question mark"
400

An account of someone's life written by someone else.

A.  Biography

B.  Autobiography

C.  Memoir

D.  Diary 

A.  Biography

400

This long piece of writing is often used in high school as a final exam.

Essay

400

This pair of symbols are used whenever a character is speaking to someone.

Quotation marks

400

Words like "quietly," "slowly," and "daily" are examples of this part of speech.

A.  adjective

B.  preposition

C.  adverb

D.  verb


An "adverb"

400

This symbol indicates a pause between parts of a sentence. 

A "comma"
500

Mr. Bill's favorite color.

Purple

500

What is the most common word in English?

"The"

500

This literary device is used when the author gives the reader a hint about something that will happen later in the book. 

A.  Forbearing

B.  Foreshadowing

C.  Forthright

D.  Fortnite

B.  Foreshadowing

500

The words "of," "in," and "under" are examples of this part of speech.

A.  preposition

B.  adverb

C.  adjective

D.  verb

A.  preposition

500

This separates independent clauses that are related in meaning, and they separate items in a list when those items themselves are long or include commas. 

Semicolon