Parts of Speech
Identify the proper noun in: "Tommo and Charlie grew up in Devon."
What are Tommo, Charlie, or Devon?
Correct the missing punctuation: "What time is it" whispered Tommo.
What is a question mark inside quotation marks?
Is this a fragment or complete sentence? "Running through the mud of No Man's Land."
What is a sentence fragment?
What were the two main opposing military alliances that fought against each other in World War I?
What are the Allied Powers (or Triple Entente) and the Central Powers?
Identify the figurative language: "I felt like a tiny insect crawling through a thunderstorm."
What is a simile?
Find the action verb: "The soldiers marched endlessly through the cold rain."
What is "marched"?
Identify the error: "The soldier's were terrified of the upcoming attack."
What is an unnecessary apostrophe in "soldier's"?
Identify the conjunction used to join two sentences: "Tommo was young, but he lied about his age to enlist."
What is "but"?
What were the long, narrow ditches dug by soldiers to protect themselves from enemy fire called?
What are trenches?
Identify the device: "The roaring artillery thundered in the distance."
What is imagery (or sensory language / personification)?
Identify the prepositions in: "The mice scurried under the wooden floorboards."
What is "under"?
Where does the comma belong? "After the bugle sounded the men grabbed their rifles and helmets."
What is after "sounded"?
Classify this sentence type (simple, compound, or complex): "Because Sergeant Hanley was cruel, the men despised him."
What is a complex sentence?
The event that triggered the start of WWI was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand from which European empire?
What is Austria-Hungary?
Identify the literary technique used in this description of Tommo's feelings toward his brother: "I could feel I live in his shadow... I live in his glow."
What is juxtaposition (or contrast)?
Find both adverbs: "The artillery shells landed terrifyingly close and exploded loudly."
What are "terrifyingly" and "loudly"?
Fix the dialogue formatting: "I'm not leaving you, Tommo said Charlie."
What is adding quotes: “I’m not leaving you, Tommo,” said Charlie.
Fix this run-on: "The trench flooded with rain the soldiers couldn't stay dry."
What is adding a semicolon, or a comma and a conjunction (e.g., "...rain, so the soldiers...")?
What term describes the dangerous, unoccupied ground located between opposing army trenches?
What is No Man's Land?
What literary device is used here: "the blackness begins to crumble and fall in on me, filling my mouth, my eyes, my ears"?
What is imagery?
Identify the pronoun and its antecedent: "Charlie protected Tommo because he loved his younger brother."
What is the pronoun "he" and its antecedent "Charlie"?
Correct the punctuation errors in this sentence: "The soldiers were supplied with three items; rifles, rations, and uniforms, however, supplies ran out quickly."
What is changing the semicolon after "items" to a colon and placing a semicolon before "however" (and comma after)?
Corrected Sentence: "The soldiers were supplied with three items: rifles, rations, and uniforms; however, supplies ran out quickly."
Classify this sentence (simple, compound, or complex): "Tommo looked up at the stars, and he remembered his happy childhood in Devon."
What is a compound sentence?
Which famous treaty was signed in 1919 to formally bring World War I to an end and set peace terms?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
What device is being used when an author gives hints or clues about events that will happen later in the story?
What is foreshadowing?