Parts of Speech
What is the part of speech of the CAPITALIZED word?
The out-of-control car CAREENED off the side of the embankment.
What is a verb?
This punctuation mark separates items in a list and often appears before conjunctions in compound sentences.
What is a comma?
This moment represents the highest point of tension and the turning point in the story.
What is the climax?
What type of figurative language is shown here:
The city stretched endlessly before them, a glittering sea of lights beneath the night sky.
What is a metaphor?
This type of Japanese poetry follows a specific syllabic format of 3 lines comprised of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.
What is a haiku?
What is the part of speech of the CAPITALIZED word?
The ARID desert is a perfect climate for camels, sidewinder snakes, and scorpions.
What is an adjective?
This punctuation mark is used to show possession or form contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
This literary technique occurs when a writer hints at events that will happen later in the story, creating suspense and anticipation.
What is foreshadowing?
What type of figurative language is shown here:
Time marched steadily toward the deadline.
What is personification?
This is the term for a group of words containing a subject and verb but that does not express a complete thought.
What is a dependent clause?
What is the part of speech of the CAPITALIZED word?
The current carried the boat SWIFTLY down the river.
What is an adverb?
This punctuation connects two closely related, independent clauses without a conjunction or separates complex items in a list where commas are already in use.
What is a semicolon?
In a story, the reader knows a trap has been set, but the main character confidently walks toward it unaware.
What is dramatic irony?
What type of figurative language is shown here:
I’ve told you a million times to turn in your homework.
What is hyperbole?
This comma error occurs when two independent clauses are joined only with a comma and no coordinating conjunction.
What is a comma splice?
What is the part of speech of the CAPITALIZED word?
Somewhere OVER the rainbow, bluebirds fly.
What is a preposition?
This punctuation is used to connect closely related ideas, introduce lists, or explain the preceding clause. It follows a complete sentence and signals that what follows and is also used in time formats.
What is a colon?
An object like a broken watch that repeatedly appears and represents the passage of time and lost opportunities.
What is a symbol?
What type of figurative language is shown here:
The clock ticked and tocked in the silent room.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem. Essentially, this is a poem "paragraph."
What is a stanza?
What is the part of speech of the CAPITALIZED word?
I decided not to wash the car SINCE it was raining.
What is a conjunction?
These three periods in a row show that words have been omitted from a quotation.
What is an ellipses?
This narrative perspective allows the reader to see the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
What is third-person limited?
What type of figurative language is shown here:
The silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.
What is alliteration?
A type of literary device that makes an indirect reference to something (usually) well-known for comparison. Example: calling two lovers “Romeo and Juliet” as in reference to the tragic lovers from Shakespeare's play
What is an allusion?