Spelling
Spell the word for a large animal that lives in the ocean and shoots water from its blowhole.
What is whale?
What punctuation mark ends a question?
What is a question mark?
What part of speech is the word “quickly”?
What is an adverb?
What do we call the person telling the story?
What is the narrator?
What is the name for a comparison using “like” or “as”?
What is a simile?
Which is correct: “definately” or “definitely”?
What is “definitely”?
What punctuation is missing?
The dog barked but no one heard it
What is comma and full stop.
The dog barked, but no one heard it
Choose the correct word:
“They’re / Their / There going to the shops.”
What is “They’re”?
(the first one)
What narrative device is being used if the story jumps back in time?
What is a flashback?
“The leaves danced in the wind.” What language feature is used?
What is personification?
What rule helps you spell “believe” correctly?
What is “i before e except after c”?
What punctuation marks show someone is speaking?
What are quotation marks?
Identify the subject in this sentence:
The black cat slept on the warm windowsill.
What is “The black cat”?
A sudden twist or change in a story’s outcome is known as what?
What is a plot twist?
What is alliteration?
What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds?
Spell the plural of “baby.”
What is “babies”?
Name the punctuation used in this sentence:
She brought three things: eggs, milk, and flou
What is a colon?
Choose the correct sentence:
A) The team have won their game.
B) The team has won its game.
What is B) The team has won its game?
What is it called when the author gives hints about what will happen later?
What is foreshadowing?
What is the effect of using emotive language in persuasive writing?
What is to make the reader feel strong emotions?
What’s the correct spelling: “accomodation” or “accommodation”?
What is “accommodation”?
What punctuation is missing from the sentence:
Its time to go home.
What is 'apostrophe'?
What is the tense of this sentence:
“I had been studying before dinner.”
What is past perfect continuous?
When a character faces a difficult choice or moral dilemma, what kind of conflict is this?
What is internal conflict (or man vs. self)?
What is an oxymoron, and give an example?
What is two opposite words placed together, e.g. “deafening silence”?