Grammar
What type of sentence shows strong or sudden feeling and ends with an exclamation point?
exclamatory
What punctuation is used to indicate books, magazines, newspapers, and forms of transportation like boats or planes?
italics
A captain urges his ship to sail on
A humorous retelling of Christopher Columbus
Look What You Did, Christopher
discovery of the pacific ocean
Washington irving
And before they came back, they had blazed out a track/from St. Louis straight to the pacific
discovery of the pacific ocean
the people in the story
characters
What type of sentence gives a command or request?
imperative
colon
kids have too much fun while parents are gone
keeping house
Several country cousins play practical jokes on their city cousin
Alas! poor Annabelle
keeping house
Laura ingalls wilder
I go up to the stone wall / for a friendly visit
a time to talk
the central idea that gives a story meaning
theme
What punctuation mark is used to enclose the titles of short stories, poems, and chapters?
Quotation marks
Are the 4 seasons capitalized?
features Vasco de Balboa as the main character
Discovering of the Pacific Oceans
A young girl realizes the value of an heirloom
Mama and the graduation present
of plymouth of plantation
William Bradford
for I live on toasted lizards / prickly pears, and parrot gizzards
Robinson Crusoe's story
the place where the story happens
setting
What punctuation is used after a business letter?
colon
Which sentence comes at the beginning of a paragraph and introduces the main idea
topic
after twenty years
A stranded man builds a raft and a cave-home
robinson crusoe
after twenty years
o Henry
being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven
of plymouth plantation
making a comparison by giving human qualities to an inanimate object
personification
What punctuation is used to form the possessives of most nouns?
apostrophe
What type of order is used in a paragraph when events are given in the order that they happened?
chronological
pilgrims explain what they carried to the New World
atlantic charter
A Man who fell overboard catches a nearby rope
what did mr. Gilbreth name his new car
foolish carriage
he guided the trembling feet along; proud that his own were firm and strong
somebody's mother
the action of the story divided into beginning, middle, end
plot