literary devices
prefixes
prefixes and root words
verb shifts/formatting titles
Commas
100
This device compares things using like or as.

What is a simile?

100

If I can't read someone writing it is this.

What is illegible?

100

To remember your lines in a play, you must do this.

What is memorize?
100

The correct format for the book A Changing Landscape

What is ItalicsA Changing Landscape?

100

 The correct punctuation for Grace Idaho and for May 6 2025

What is a comma between Grace and Idaho and between 6 and 2025?

200
The device used in: The mouse was a quiet lamb.

What is a metaphor?

200

If you distract someone from what they are doing, you are doing this.

What is taking away their attention?

200

I do my spelling everyday, it is a ________ part of my day.

What is regular?

200

The correct format for the chapter A Long and Winding Road

What is a "A Long and Winding Road"?

200

The correct punctuation for: Today is the first day of spring isn't it

What is a comma after spring and a ? after isn't it?

300

This device uses exaggeration, "I told you a million times."

What is a hyperbole?

300

With the _________ of my dr's appointment, I didn't have to miss school.

What is cancellation?

300

Someone you can count on to get things done is this.

What is responsible?

300

The correct format for Raphael's art The School of Athens

What is Italics, The School of Athens?

300

The commas in the sentences: Mrs. Welch do you know where the track meet is? Yes it is in Idaho falls.

What is after Mrs. Welch and after yes?

400

This device doesn't literally mean what is says, "It was raining cats and dogs"

What is an idiom?

400

If I need to buy milk and the store is far away it is this.

What is inconvenient?

400

A word with the prefix fore that means you saw signs that signaled something would happen.

What is forebode?

400

Verb shift or not, past, present or future tense?  Pacific Tribes pass totems down to next generation.  They still host potlaches.

What is there is no verb shift and it is in the present?

400

The punctuation in the sentence: It was nice to smell the fresh air look at the green grass and feel the sun on my face

What is a comma after air and grass and a period after face?

500

These words imitate sounds. (name device and give example)

What is____________?

500

If I bring an umbrella on a rainy day I have this___________.

What is foresight?

500

The Olympics is a ___________ sport.

What is international?

500

Verb shift or not, past present, future Buffalo ruled the plains, there will be millions of them and the earth will be trembling.

What is yes, there is a verb shift, it is in the past, change will be to was and will be to was?

500

The punctuation: How many people are in school today asked Mr. Moss

What is "How many people are in school today?" asked Mr. Moss.