Sam, a die-hard baseball fan, spends every FREE moment playing the game.
What is an adjective?
100
This part of speech eliminates choppiness in writing by joining two words, two sentences or a dependent to an independent clause.
What is a conjunction?
100
A comparison made between two things using the words like or as, or another comparative word.
What is a simile?
100
“All the world's a stage”
What is a metaphor?
100
All six of these traits need to be developed in a paper.
What are Organization, Content, Sentence Fluency, Word Choice, Voice and Conventions?
200
Children doodle and chat when THEY should be paying attention.
What is a pronoun?
200
Without this part of speech, the reader would not be able to visualize size, shape, color, texture, number or emotion.
What is an adjective?
200
A comparison made by calling one thing another.
What is a metaphor?
200
Chocolate is her Achilles’ heel.
What is allusion?
200
This is the part of the paragraph where an idea is further developed.
What is an elaboration?
300
I would eat a banana IF I was a monkey.
What is a conjunction?
300
This part of speech renames a person, place or thing. It helps to avoid redundancy in writing.
What is a pronoun?
300
This is an exaggeration made for the purpose of placing emphasis on something.
What is hyperbole?
300
KNOCK-KNOCK Who's there?
BOO
Boo who?
Don't cry, I was only joking
What is onomatopoeia?
300
These are the five ways an author can indirectly develop a character.
What are things the character says, things the character thinks, the actions of the character, the effect the character has on others, and the character's looks.
400
BITTER cold rain pounded the ground for hours.
What is an adverb?
400
Without this part of speech we would never know where anything is happening.
What is a preposition?
400
A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional.
What is an allusion?
400
The birds twittered their little hearts out.
What is hyperbole?
400
A good setting a story does one of these three things.
What are creates a problem and/or creates a mood and/or creates a sense of reality?
500
On the last day of school, all the students participate IN field day.
What is a preposition?
500
This is the most powerful part of speech for creating images for the reader. It helps bring writing to life.
What is an action verb?
500
This is when an author gives human qualities or abilities to something not human.
What is personification?
500
"And the ROCKET'S RED glare, the BOMBS BURSTING in air"
What is alliteration?
500
This is who or what is causing the problem in a story.