Vocabulary
This word means the ability to concentrate one's attention or to sustain concentration.
1.Isolate
2.Organize
3.Focus
4.Explain
3.What is focus?
Choose the sentence with the correct subject word agreement
1.They was going home.
2.The boy hit the ball out of the park.
3.The cook spoil the dinner.
4.How many classes do you have.
2. What is the boy hit the ball out of the park?
Identify the figurative language in this sentence:
She ran as fast as a cheetah to catch up with her friends.
What is simile?
How many pieces of evidence in a short response, do you need to get full points on the state test?
What is two pieces of evidence?
The name of Chris's coach
What is Mr. Evans?
This word means cruel or unjust use of authority or power
1.Cruel
2.Convey
3.Oppression
4.Guard
3.What is oppression?
Fill in the blank: __ going to the zoo tomorrow.
1.They're
2.Their
3.There
1. What is they're?
Identify the figurative language at use in this sentence:
The fire crackled and popped in the fireplace.
What is onomatopoeia?
The authors uses this literary element to establish the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
Fill in the blank: "Sometimes I think he ___ himself." Mom said
What is blames?
This words means to officially end or stop something, such as a law.
1.Dictate
2.Abolish
3.Summarize
4.Reflect
2.What is abolish?
Fill in the blank:__me another glass of lemonade.
1.Poor
2.Pour
3.Pore
1. What is pour?
Identify the figurative language used in this sentence:
The detective listened to her tales with a wooden face.
What is a metaphor?
What form of writing is a conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
What is dialogue?
The height of Jim Blair
What is six five?
Fill in the Blank: Sam was overcome with ___ when his grandmother died
1.Energy
2.Joy
3.Melancholy
4. Hysterics
3.What is melancholy?
This form of punctuation is most often used to connect two full sentences that are related in meaning
1. Period .
2. Comma ,
3. Semicolon ;
4. Colon :
3. What is a semicolon ; ?
Identify the figurative language used in this sentence
Gary has a chip on his shoulder.
1. Hyberbole
2.Metaphor
3.Idiom
4.Personification
What is an idiom?
Fill in the blank.
"I just won $500!!" This is a ___ sentence.
1.Imperative
2.Declarative
3.Exclamatory
4.Interrogative
3. What is exclamatory?
The type of conflict demonstrated in paragraph 31 when Chris's father arrives.
What is an internal conflict?
Fill in the blank: When writing short responses you want them to be ___ and organized
1.Plagiarized
2.External
3.Juvenile
4.Coherent
4.What is coherent?
Which sentence has the correct comma placement?
1. I took Angie, the one with the freckles to the movie last night.
2. I took Angie, the one with the freckles, to the movie last night.
3. I took Angie the one with the freckles, to the movie last night.
4. I took Angie, the one with the freckles, to the movie, last night.
2. What is I took Angie, the one with the freckles, to the movie last night?
Identify the form of figurative language used in this sentence
My clothes stood so erect as if someone had ordered them to stay in attention, as soon as I had ironed them.
What is personification?
What is it called when a writer appeals to a reader's senses by using descriptive and figurative language to create a picture in the readers mind.
What is imagery?
What tool does Chris and his Dad use to play basketball together?
What is a wheelchair?