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Parts of Speech
Figurative Language
Punctuation
Types of Writing
Research
100
Person, Place or Thing
What is a noun?
100

The teacher buzzed around the classroom like a bumblebee to flowers.

What is a simile?

100
period, comma, question mark, semicolon
What are punctuation marks?
100
A type of writing to sway you to the author's point of view.
What is persuasive writing?
100
Bing, Google, Yahoo
What are search engines?
200
Part of the sentence that you find the action verb.
What is the predicate?
200

The stairs creaked as I tried to sneak down them.

What is onomatopoeia?

200
What is missing? After his nap, Jack said I slept too long.
What are quotation marks?
200
Type of writing that tells a true or made up story.
What is narrative writing?
200

A reference book to help you find synonyms.

What is a thesaurus?

300

Has a subject and verb, but can't stand alone.

What is a dependent clause?

300

The thirsty grass drank in the rain.

What is personification?

300
This comes after an expression of strong feeling.
What is an exclamation mark?
300

A written account of someone's life written by someone else.

What is a biography?

300
A part of the paper where sources are listed.
What is a bibliography?
400
Type of sentence made when 2 simple sentences are joined.
What is a compound sentence?
400

I learned to ride a bike about a million years ago.

What is hyperbole?

400

This mark precedes a list of things.

What is a colon?

400
A type of writing that may include magic and things that could not happen in the real world.
What is fantasy?
400
To copy what another source has written.
What is plagerism?
500

Word that modifies an adjective (example/very). The very beautiful butterfly lit on the purple flower.

What is an adverb?

500

After the first week of football practice, I slept like a log.

What is an idiom?

500
These set off an appositive from the rest of the sentence.
What are commas?
500

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?

500

A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.

What is a citation?