Parts of Speech
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The people or animals in a story.
What are characters?
The opposite of a word.
What is an antonym?
A sentence that asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
A word that shows action.
What is a verb?
A comparison with using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
What is a setting?
A word that means the same as another word.
What is a synonym?
A sentence that gives a command.
What is an imperative sentence?
A word that replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
The main problem in a story.
What is a conflict?
Clues in a sentence that help define a word.
What are context clues?
A sentence that shows strong feeling and ends with an exclamation mark.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
The word "quickly" is this type of word.
What is an adverb?
Boom! Crash! are examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
The turning point or most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
A word formed from the first letters of a phrase. (NASA)
What is an acronym?
A sentence with on independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
A word that connects words. phases, or clauses (like and, but, or).
What is a conjunction?
An extreme exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
How the problem is solved.
What is resolution?
The literal meaning of a word.
What is a denotation?
A sentence with two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?