Parts of Speech
The teacher buzzed around the classroom like a bumblebee to flowers.
What is a simile?
Part of the sentence where you find the action verb.
What is the predicate?
The stairs creaked as I tried to sneak down them.
What is onomatopoeia?
Type of writing that is a made up story that could really happen.
What is realistic fiction writing?
A reference book to help you find synonyms.
What is a thesaurus?
Has a subject and verb, but can't stand alone.
What is a dependent clause?
The thirsty grass drank in the rain.
What is personification?
A written account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
The part of the paper where sources are listed.
What is a bibliography or a works cited?
I learned to ride a bike about a million years ago.
What is hyperbole?
This mark precedes a list of things.
What is a colon?
To copy what another source has written without giving credit to the original source.
What is plagiarism?
Word that modifies an adjective (example/very). The very beautiful butterfly lit on the purple flower.
What is an adverb?
After the first week of football practice, I slept like a log.
What is an idiom?
A type of artistic writing that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions through the use of distinctive sounds and rhythm.
What is poetry?
A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.
What is a citation?