Part of Speech
Writing/Reading
Test Prep
Punctuation
Figurative language
100

This part of speech represents a person, place, thing, or idea

What is a noun?

100

A short writing piece based on personal experiences

What is a narrative?

100

The two most important things to read first.  

What are the context and the essay question?

100

Use this between items in a list.

What is a comma

100
compare unlike things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
200

This part of speech describes a noun

What is an adjective?

200

A text that tells about real events

What is non-fiction text?

200

When you are asked to write a brief overview of a larger piece of writing.  

What is summary (summarize)?

200

A ___ cannot separate two complete thoughts unless there is a FANBOYS after it. 

What is a comma?

200
comparing like things using like or as
What is simile?
300

This part of speech represents an action or form of being

What is a verb?

300

A text that tells about the life of a person other than the author.

What is a biography?

300

If you are asked to infer the answer, it means this. 

What is using what you know and what you just read to draw a conclusion?

300

A period and a ___ can perform the same tasks.  

What is a semicolon?

300

Zing! is an example of....

What is an onomatopoeia? 

400

This part of speech describes a verb

What is an adverb?

400

A story that has made-up characters, like fly elephants

What is (fantasy) fiction?

400

A question about setting requires analysis of the following:

What is time and place?

400

This is where the period goes for parenthetic citation. 

What is after the last parentheses.  

400
I'm so hungry I think I'm going to die....
What is a hyperbole?
500

A complete sentence needs these parts of speech:

What is a subject and predicate or noun and verb?

500

How many pieces of evidence (either quotations or paraphrases) should you have in each body paragraph for a five?

What is three?

500

An expository essay means that the readers are expecting you to write from this point of view.  

What is third person?

500

Use this after a complete thought that integrates a quotation.

What is a colon?

500
objects having human qualities
What is personification?