A comparison between two or more things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
An example of a noun.
Give an example of a person, place, or thing
100
The punctuation that marks the beginning and end of spoken words or a quoted passage.
What are quotation marks?
100
The text structure that would use a Venn Diagram to organize information.
What is compare and contrast?
100
"I am cold and hungry."
The point of view the above sentence is written in.
What is first person?
200
"Her eyes are fireflies" compares these two things.
What are "eyes" and "fireflies"?
200
An example of a verb.
Give an example of an action word
200
The punctuation that comes before a conjunction.
What is a comma?
200
Signal words such as "first," "next," and "finally" give clues that text is organized in this way.
What is sequence? Or What is chronological?
200
The type of conflict that is called "Man vs. Self."
What is internal?
300
Giving human-like qualities to something not human.
What is personification?
300
An example of an adjective.
Give an example of a word that describes a noun
300
The subject in the sentence:
"My dog chased the cat across the yard."
What is dog?
300
The text structure that would use a bubble map to organize information.
What is descriptive? OR What is description?
300
The point of view in which the narrator knows everything about all of the characters.
What is third person omniscient?
400
Words that resemble the sound they make.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
An example of a conjunction.
What is: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, or so? (must give one to get correct)
400
The verb in the sentence:
"Lynn's cat raced through the house like a tiny freight train."
What is raced?
400
"Reasons why," "because of this," and "if... then" are signal words in this type of text structure.
What is cause and effect?
400
The words underneath a picture in an informational piece of writing.
What is a caption?
500
An expression that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is an idiom?
500
An example of a preposition.
Give an example of a position word for a place or location in time
500
The correct form of there / their / they're in this sentence:
____________ always late.
What is they're?
500
"A city program to clean up the streets would stop the sewers from becoming clogged."
The text structure that a paragraph with this sentence in it would be organized into.
What is problem and solution?
500
The sentence in an expository writing that drives the direction of the rest of the essay.
What is the thesis? OR What is the controlling idea?