Parts of Speech
A word that represents a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
Use the sentence below to figure out the meaning of the word "tome".
"Ms. O'Brien can often be found with a hefty tome beside her on her desk."
This sentence is an example of...
"She slammed the door with a thunderous crack!"
What is onomatopoeia?
This piece of punctuation ends a complete sentence.
What is a period (.)?
Example:
I made this Jeopardy game yesterday.
This is put after a time to indicate that it is afternoon or night.
What is "PM", or post-meridian?
A word that represents an action.
What is a verb?
Use the sentence below to figure out the meaning of the word "pacify".
"I tried to pacify my mom by telling her I'd do better on the next summative, but she kept yelling at me."
What is "to calm someone down"?
This sentence is an example of...
"My impatience is a starving wolf."
What is a metaphor?
This piece of punctuation can be used to connect two clauses, or to separate more than two items in a list.
What is a comma (,)?
Example:
Suzie Q enjoys biking, making TikToks, and fighting vampires behind her local Denny's.
What are two weeks?
What is an adjective?
Use the sentence below to figure out the meaning of the word "shambled".
"With only an hour of sleep last night, I shambled unsteadily out the door."
What is "to walk slowly and without energy"?
This sentence is an example of...
"Ms. O'Brien had to wait ten thousand years for the class to stop talking."
What is a hyperbole?
This piece of punctuation goes around dialogue and words you've borrowed from another author.
What are quotation marks ("")?
Example:
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, quotation marks are "used chiefly to indicate the beginning and the end of a quotation in which the exact phraseology of another or of a text is directly cited".
"Wow!" Ms. O'Brien's students exclaimed. "That made literally no sense!"
Emetophobia is the fear of this thing.
What is vomit/barf?
A word that describes how an action is done.
What is an adverb?
Use the sentence below to figure out the meaning of the word "antiquated".
"His antiquated flip phone didn't even have a touchscreen."
What is "very old; out-of-date"?
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"When I stepped outside, the sun greeted me with a gentle kiss."
What is personification?
This piece of punctuation shows that something belongs to someone, or that you've combined two words into one (contraction).
What is an apostrophe (')?
Example:
You'd better remember that Ms. O'Brien's name has a capital "O" and a capital "B"!
This is a country located next to Peru.
What is (any of the following accepted) Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, or Chile?
A word that shows where a noun is in relation to something else in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
Use the sentence below to figure out the meaning of the word "quixotic".
"Her quixotic outlook was quickly dampened by the harsh reality of teaching."
What is "overly optimistic or unrealistic"?
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"He and his milk both expired."
What is a zeugma?
This piece of punctuation can be used to connect two independent clauses instead of a FANBOYS conjunction (especially "and").
What is a semicolon (;)?
Example:
Jimmy-Bob Joe Jingleheimer was in a terrible mood; he was determined to make this everyone else's problem.
A cartographer is someone whose job is to make these things.
What are maps?