Shurley Grammar
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100

List the eight parts of speech.

What are NOUN, PRONOUN, VERB, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB, PREPOSITION, CONJUNCTION, INTERJECTION

100

This type of sentence structure: Because we enjoyed the beach, we visited several times. (S, CD, CX, CD-CX)

What is COMPLEX
100

What the root SUPER means

What is ABOVE

100

When the audience knows more information than the character(s).

What is DRAMATIC IRONY

100
Shakespeare's first name

What is WILLIAM

200

What the PN stands for in Pattern 4.

What is: Predicate Noun OR Predicate Nominative

200

Create an example of a misplaced modifier.

Includes a MISPLACED MODIFIER

200

What the root JUNGO, JUNCTUM means

What is TO JOIN

200

The definition of SETTING

What is the time and place

200

The difference between theme and message (aka theme statement)

Theme is a word or phrase (a topic), while message is a whole sentence about what the text teaches on the topic

300

The verb half of the sentence and all its description is called this.

What is COMPLETE PREDICATE

300

The words "while walking to the store" are either a phrase, dependent clause, or independent clause. Which?

What is PHRASE

300

What the root AB means

What is AWAY FROM

300

When a character (alone onstage) speaks his or her thoughts to the audience in a Shakespeare play.

What is a SOLILOQUY

300

Name the 3 themes we studied in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Deception/Trickery, Love, Reality vs Illusion

400

The reason there is a "C" placed to each side of a conjunction when labeling a Shurley sentence.

What are COMPOUND PARTS

400
These options can join two independent clauses into a compound sentence.

semicolon OR comma fanboys

400

What the root CAEDO, CECIDI, CAESUM means

What is TO CUT

400

When what happens is the opposite of what the audience expects

What is IRONY

400

Name 3 theme words from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

What are CHIVALRY, the SUPERNATURAL, CHRISTIANITY, REPUTATION, GAMES/RULES/ORDER, INTEGRITY (any 3)

500
The term for a verb and any helping verbs with it.

What is VERB PHRASE

500

Create an example of a dangling modifier

includes a DANGLING MODIFIER

500

What the root APO, APERE, APTUM means

What is TO FASTEN, TO ATTACH

500

A moment when the character speaks directly to the audience or another character, as if telling a secret that other characters onstage do NOT hear

What is an ASIDE

500

The year that A Midsummer Night's Dream was first published

What is 1600