Grammar
Vocabulary
Parts of Speech
Figurative Language
Ba(i)le(igh)y^2
100

Punctuation used to mark the end of an imperative or declarative statement.

What is a period?

100

An experience held by all people and/or things in the world or a particular group.

What is universal?

100

A person, place, or thing.

What is a noun?

100

Comparing two unlike things by saying that one is the other.

What is a metaphor?

100

The 8th grade ELA teacher that spells her name with an "-eigh."

Who is Ms. Baleigh?

200

Punctuation used to show a pause between two parts of a sentence.

What is a comma?

200

To be strongly infatuated with someone.

What is besotted?

200

An action word

What is a verb?

200

It uses human characteristics to describe non-human things.

What is personification?

200

The 8th grade ELA teacher with a (nearly) 7 month old baby.

Who is Mrs. Conard?

300

Something that must be present at the start of every name, or at the beginning of every sentence.

What is a capital letter?

300

The message of a story or passage; this thing usually causes changes in the narrator's personality or life.

What is theme?

300

A word that describes a person, place, or thing.

What is an adjective?

300

A word that is also a sound.

What is an onomatopoeia.

300

Ms. Baleigh's favorite genre of music.

What is emo?

400

The proper name of a sentence that asks a question.

What is interrogative?

400

Being ostracized or ousted from a social group.

What is estrangement?

400

A word that describes an action word, usually ending in -ly.

What is an adverb?
400

When something unexpected happens and it evokes humor, suspense, or tension.

What is irony?

400

The type of pet that Mrs. Conard has at home.

What is a dog?

500

A phrase use to clarify relevant details about a subject.

Ex. Ms. Baleigh, a lifelong avid reader, always finished the library's summer reading list as a child.

What is an appositive?

500

A forcible overthrow of a government or social order.

What is a revolution?

500

A word that is used instead of a person, place, or thing.

What is a pronoun?

500

Using words that have opposite meanings to describe something.

What is an oxymoron?

500

The 8th grade ELA teacher that used to teach in Mrs. Baleigh's room.

Who is Ms. Andrews?