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Parts of Speech
Writing
Short Stories
Punctuation
Young Adult Books
100
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun.
100
This is the term for writing down a bunch of ideas before you write your rough draft.
What is brainstorming?
100
The name of the magazine that James Thurber wrote and drew for.
What is The New Yorker?
100
This mark is used when you are asking someone for an answer.
What is a question mark?
100
This series has a group of students that jump onto trains to get to their desired locations.
What is Divergent?
200
An action word.
What is a verb?
200
This is when you make changes to improve your writing in between drafts.
What is editing?
200
The name of the poem about the stewardess falling out of the airplane.
What is "Falling"?
200
This mark is used to show excitement.
What is exclamation point?
200
The name of Katniss and Peeta's mentor from The Hunger Game series.
What is Haymitch?
300
It describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
300
This is another name for the beginning of a story.
What is intro or lead?
300
The name of the Man From the South.
What is Carlos?
300
This mark is used before the items in a list.
What is a colon?
300
A Natalie Babbitt novel, written in 1975, about immortality
What is Tuck Everlasting?
400
It describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
400
What is another name for the reader of your story.
What is your audience?
400
The Shirley Jackson short story that I read to you.
What is "The Lottery"?
400
This mark is used to make a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
400
This boy is the main character in Lois Lowry's "The Giver"?
What is Jonas?
500
Wow! A short exclamation sometimes inserted into a sentence.
What is an interjection?
500
When you do not state an idea or lesson of a story you are writing with _____________
What is inflection?
500
The author of the poem where the stewardess falls out of the airplane.
Who is James L. Dickey?
500
It is acceptable to write a compound work as one word, or two words connected by this mark.
What is a hyphen?
500
These three magical items made up the Deathly Hallows.
What is the elder wand, the resurrection stone, and the invisibility cloak.