Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This figure of speech directly compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This is the main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
In a sentence, this word typically comes before a noun and describes it.
What is an adjective?
This part of speech expresses action or state of being in a sentence.
What is a verb?
This literary device gives human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
This is the repetition of similar sounds at the ends of lines in poems.
What is rhyme?
This device uses contradictory terms to reveal a hidden truth.
What is an oxymoron?
This punctuation mark is used to show possession or contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
This part of speech modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
What is an adverb?
This figure of speech compares two unlike things by stating one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
This is the rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
This is the sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
This is when two independent clauses are joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
This part of speech shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
This figure of speech is an exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
This type of poem has 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
This literary device is a reference to another work of literature, person, or event.
What is an allusion?
This is a word formed from the first letters of other words.
What is an acronym?
This part of speech connects words, phrases, or clauses and can be coordinating, subordinating, or correlative.
What is a conjunction?
This type of figurative language uses words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
This type of poem doesn't have a rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
This is the underlying meaning or message in a literary work.
What is the theme?
This is a clause that can stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?