Daily Grammar Practice
a noun
What is a person, place, thing or idea?
The type of writing that includes dialogue, imagery, and figurative language.
What is narrative?
The way that an author organizes the text.
What are text structures?
a conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
Meg and her father stepped through the doors of the aquarium. This was the first day of a jellyfish exhibit. They approached the first of several tall tanks. Inside, jellyfish transparent as ghosts floated through the water. Their long tentacles were party streamers trailing behind.
Which 2 types of figurative language are used?
What are simile and metaphor?
the 3 types of verbs
What are linking verb, helping verb, and action verb?
The type of writing that follows the Formulaic Structure.
What are informational/expository and argumentative?
the subject of a text, usually expressed as a single word or phrase in the form of a noun
What is the topic?
the message of a work of literature, often expressed as a general statement about life
What is the theme?
“They have a sting that feels like you’ve been touched by fire” means that the sting—
A. gives a sharp, hot pain.
B. is caused by touching fire.
C. occurs only in the summer.
D. leaves you feeling really tired.
What is A?
Identify the part of speech of the word "through" in the following sentence:
My pencil fell straight through the gap.
What is a preposition?
Sentence 2 of the conclusion paragraph must do this.
What is offer a final idea or reflection?
quotes, examples, reasons, expert opinions, facts, and statistics to support an idea or claim
What is text evidence?
the sequence of events that take place in a work of literature
What is plot?
In the sentence, “Look at all the different colors, like a rainbow,” which word suggests there is figurative language?
A. at
B. like
C. colors
D. rainbow
What is B?
Identify the sentence type:
Sit down on that chair.
What is imperative?
Is this an appropriate sentence 3 for a body paragraph?
This explains that the character is demonstrating bravery through his actions.
What is no?
the most important point that an author makes about a topic in a text
What is central idea?
the part of the plot that occurs after the highest point of tension in a storyline
What is the falling action?
Erosion of America's farmland by wind and water has been a problem since settlers first put the prairies and grasslands under the plow in the nineteenth century. By the 1930s, more than 282 million acres of farmland were damaged by erosion. After 40 years of conservation efforts, soil erosion has accelerated due to new demands placed on the land by heavy crop production. In the years ahead, soil erosion and the pollution problems it causes are likely to replace petroleum scarcity as the nation's most critical natural resource problem.
As we understand from the reading, today, soil erosion in America ----.
A) causes humans to place new demands on the land
B) happens so slowly that it is hardly noticed
C) is worse than it was in the nineteenth century
What is C?
Identify the sentence type:
Ms. Moody, our ELA teacher, is awesome, so we will have cupcakes on Friday.
What is a compound sentence?
The sentence in which the claim is made and the prompt is answered.
What is the thesis?
a focused explanation or argument that helps develop the central idea
What is a supporting idea or key idea?
the voice in which a story is told and its relationship to the events in the story
What is Point of View?
Naval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should have never have happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save themselves: Of those who managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912 souls. However, there were an unpleasant number of questions about why the Estonia sank and why so many survivors were men in the prime of life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.
It is clear from the passage that the survivors of the accident ----.
A) helped one another to overcome the tragedy that had affected them all
B) were mostly young men but women, children and the elderly stood little chance
C) are still suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder
What is B?