Grammar
Which part of speech is used to replace a noun?
What is an pronoun?
A comparison that uses "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
What is the author’s purpose when they are trying to teach you something?
What is to inform?
Every proper noun begins with what?
What is a capital letter?
What is a noun?
What is a person, place, or thing (or idea)?
This punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses with a FANBOYS conjunction.
What is a comma?
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
What does R A C E stand for?
What is: Restate, Answer, Cite, and Explain?
This is when the events in a story are told in the order in which they happened?
What is chronological order?
What is it called when you put something into your own words?
What is paraphrasing?
This error occurs when two complete sentences are incorrectly joined without punctuation.
What is a run on sentence?
This tool, while reading, helps you figure out the meaning of an unknown word in a sentence.
What is a context clues?
What type of writing has a CLAIM?
What is argumentative?
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
Contrast = to find something different
Compare = to find similar
What two words does the contraction, "can't" make up?
What is "can not?"
Identify the error: “My favorite subject is english.”
What is the incorrect capitalization of "english"?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
In a story, the author's message about life is called the...
What is the theme?
when the author gives hints in the story about what will happen next
What is foreshadowing?
When something is written in third person, who is the one telling the story?
Who is the narrator?
This type of sentence contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
What is the overall feeling or atmosphere that the author creates in their writing called? (Hint: These can be positive or negative)
What is mood? (connotation)
A word part added to the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix?
Figurative language that shows an exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
What do the letters of FANBOYS stand for?
What is: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So?