Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
Does the resolution happen at the beginning, middle, or end of the story?
What is the end of the story?
Is this direct or indirect characterization?
Harry is a nice and caring person.
What is direct characterization?
What is a metaphor?
What is a statement that compares two unlike things by saying one is another?
The dog ran out of the gate because the boy left it open.
What is the effect of this situation?
What is the verb in the following sentence?
Janice sang in the school program.
Which plot element of a story usually describes the setting?
What is exposition?
Is this statement direct or indirect characterization?
Alicia slammed her fist on the table, “I want all of you out of my office now!” She tore the report and threw it in the trash.
What is indirect characterization?
What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?
Emma's phone slipped out of her pocket and hit the ground with a thud.
After studying all night, Carla passed her final exam.
What is the cause of this situation?
What is Carla studied all night?
What are the three article adjectives?
What is a, an, and the?
What is the climax?
What can we infer about this character?
Bill watched his little brother for two hours while his mother was ill, taking care of his every need. He did this without being asked and asked for nothing in return.
Bill is compassionate and caring.
What type of figurative language is used in the sentence below?
Nick's jokes were like a flat soda to his classmates, very unpleasant.
What is a simile?
Some researchers have said that violent video games have led to an increase in crime.
What is the cause of this situation?
What is playing violent video games?
What is the preposition in the following sentence?
The Bob Jones football player ran down the field?
What is down?
Is this the exposition, climax, or resolution:
I approached the starting line, fighting the nervous lump creeping up in my throat. Runners began to take their mark beside me. After what seemed like forever, the officiant came to the starting line and fired the starting gun. And just like that, the race was on!
What is the exposition?
What can we infer about both Gary and Beatrice?
“The next thing I know, Gary was tearing up my rose garden,” cried Beatrice, his elderly grandmother as she gave her statement to the police. Her frail hands shook as she held the broken pieces of the garden rake.
There are multiple correct answers.
What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?
My alarm clock yells at me every morning.
What is personification?
During the experiment, Henry poured the liquid bromine into the saline solution. His hypothesis was proved correct when the solution changed color.
What is the cause and effect of this situation?
The cause is Henry poured the liquid bromine into the saline solution.
The effect is that the solution changed color.