Parts of Speech
True or false: A part of speech determines the meaning of a word in a sentence.
False
True or false: The majority of English sentences end in a period.
True
The plural of the word ox.
Oxen
An important element in storytelling, which describes the time when and the place where the story happens.
The setting
The age of legal maturity after which a person may be legally tried at court.
eighteen
A word that replaces and functions as a noun
A pronoun
An end-of-sentence mark is used with words, phrases, and clauses that express strong emotions.
An exclamation mark
A type of affixes the precedes the main part of a word.
A prefix
Word choice by which a writer brings an experience to life by appealing to one of the senses.
Imagery
The singer of "Teardrops on my Guitar"
Taylor Swift
An adjective
A punctuation mark that precedes a dialogue, a list of choices, and a point of emphasis.
a Colon
The basic part of any word. It may function without affixes. Affixes can be added to it to derive other words.
The root
A type of writing which depicts a world of pain, misery, injustice and no hope of salvation.
Dystopia
The creature on the Mexican flag
The eagle
A conjunction
A punctuation mark that is used with abbreviations.
A period
This is the most-used suffix that transforms an adjective into an adverb.
-ly
The type of dramatic dialogue by which a character reveals his/her innermost thoughts, feelings, and intensions, being alone onstage.
Soliloquy
For the Tibetans, this is a way of saying hello.
Sticking out your tongue
The least used part of speech
An interjection
What punctuation mark is used incorrectly here:
"Will you," hesitated Jacoline, "be able to fly this plane that far"?
A question mark
The number of syllables in the word irresponsibility.
Seven
The name of a Greek mythological goddess who was wife to Zeus and mother to Hephaestus, the smith god, and Ares, the god of war.
Hera
The last letter in the Greek Alphabet.
Omega