Punctuation
This mark is used at the end of a sentence.
What is a period?
The part of speech used to show the location or relation of a noun to something else in the sentence.
What is the job of a preposition?
The main idea(s) about life that the author expresses through the characters in a story.
What is a theme?
The part of speech that represents a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Every sentence must begin with this.
What is a capital letter?
These marks are used when including a direct quote.
What are quotation marks?
The other part of speech that uses some of the same words as prepositions.
What are adverbs?
The themes that apply to people everywhere and throughout history.
What are universal themes?
The category of words used to modify nouns.
What are adjectives?
Every sentence must have both of these.
What is a subject and a predicate/verb?
This punctuation mark must precede a coordinating conjunction when joining two independent clauses.
What is a comma?
A phrase that begins with a preposition and ends with the object of the preposition.
What is a prepositional phrase?
The theme that addresses how a character changes through the events of the story.
What is character growth?
The part of speech used to modify verbs, adverbs, and adjectives.
What are adverbs?
FANBOYS, or coordinating conjunctions, are used to combine these.
What are independent clauses?
This type of punctuation is used at the end of an interrogative sentence.
What is a question mark?
The noun at the end of a prepositional phrase is called this.
What is the object of the preposition?
The plot shows how the main character continues to overcome obstacles to express this theme.
What is the theme of perseverance?
The form of a verb that contains the word "to" and may be confused with prepositional phrases.
What is the infinitive form of a verb?
Subordinating conjunctions are used to introduce these.
What are dependent clauses?
This type of punctuation can change the meaning of a sentence if not used correctly.
What is a comma?
Prepositional phrases never contain this part of speech.
What is a verb?
The difference between theme and plot.
What is the plot shows the events in the story, and the theme is the message or idea the author expresses through the characters?
This type of verb works with other verbs to show when something happened.
What is a helping verb or auxiliary verb?
"Because he left for work" needs this to be a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?