Parts of Speech
The Sentence
Literary Terms
Literary Devices
Writing Skills
100
This part of speech modifies nouns and pronouns.
What is the adjective?
100
What must a sentence contain?
What are a subject and a verb?
100
The exposition is the part of the story that does this:
What is introduces the characters and setting?
100
She is as hungry as a caged tiger!
What is a simile?
100
Which sentence should begin a paragraph?
What is a topic sentence?
200
True or False: if a word ends in -ly, it is an adverb.
What is FALSE?
200
What a sentence must do.
What is express a complete idea?
200
Joyful, tragic, romantic, and mysterious are all examples of ............
What is tone?
200
The ocean whispered comforting words to the shipwrecked sailor.
What is personification?
200
What comes in the middle of a paragraph?
What are supporting details?
300
Identify how the capitalized word is acting in the following sentence: The monkey ran away FROM the bear.
What is as a preposition?
300
What is wrong with the following sentence? Because she hates eating peas.
What is that it does not contain a complete idea-- it is a fragment?
300
It was a dark and stormy night, and the sky was empty of stars. The woods seemed to cave in on him. This is an example of ......
What is foreshadowing?
300
Hope is the thing with feathers
What is a metaphor?
300
She was really, really happy when she found out she got an "A" on the exam. Please replace "really, really happy" with an appropriate word.
What is ecstatic; overjoyed, etc.?
400
Identify which type of verb is present in the following sentence: The magician appeared out of thin air.
What is an action verb?
400
Identify what is wrong with the following sentence: Running away from the police because of her crime.
What is that it does not contain a subject and a verb-- it is a fragment?
400
What is one way BESIDES narrator description that the author can show the reader a character's personality?
What is interaction with other characters, dialogue, or actions?
400
Fix the following cliché: Her eyes are as bright as diamonds.
Answers vary. MUST BE ACCEPTED BY TEACHER.
400
This is the most important sentence in an essay.
What is the thesis statement?
500
Identify which part of speech each word in the sentence is: Mary always eats lunch with her good friends.
Mary= noun/ subject always= adverb eats= action verb lunch= noun with= preposition her= adjective (okay if missed) good= adjective friends= noun
500
Identify what is wrong with the following sentence: The lifeguard swam out into the ocean; he had heard a little girl crying and wanted to investigate.
What is nothing?
500
What is the THEME of Emily Dickinson's poem "I'm Nobody?" Please include both a single-word and a message.
What is fame and that it cannot bring you happiness?
500
Define the word cliché. Why is using a cliché a problem?
What is a word or expression that has been overused. Using clichés is a problem because they bore the reader/ they are unoriginal.
500
Provide three rules for formal writing.
What are: 1. No contractions 2. No first or second person 3. Third person only 4. Paragraph structure