Genre and text
This kind of text is used to tell a story.
What is a narrative?
This figure of speech involves comparing two things using words such as 'like' and 'as'.
What is a simile?
These words are also known as "linking words".
What are connectives?
This famous author wrote Romeo & Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This is the letter at the end of the rainbow.
What is W?
This kind of genre is used to convince readers.
What is a persuasive text?
This collection of lines in a poem is the equivalent to paragraphs in prose.
What is a stanza?
This word class is used to refer to people, animals, things, and ideas.
What is a noun?
This is the main character in Flower for Algernon.
Who is Charlie?
It is higher without a head.
What is a pillow?
This genre involves predictions of the future and technologies.
What is science fiction?
This is the repetition of a syllable-initial consonant between words.
What is alliteration?
A word that is used to substitute a noun.
What is a pronoun?
This author is known for The Odyssey and The Iliad.
Who is Homer?
It has four wheels and flies.
What is a garbage truck?
This genre is different from a biography because it is based on personal memories.
What is a memoir?
This kind of poetry does not require rhymes or a specific number of syllables.
A sentence that contains at least one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
The best-selling book of all time.
What is The Little Prince?
It can be cracked, it can be made. It can be told, it can be played.
What is a joke?
This genre is best exemplified by The Odyssey, The Iliad, and The Aeneid.
What is epic poetry?
What is blank verse?
A sentence that combines two or more independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
This author is famous for an allegory involving animals in a farm.
Who is George Orwell?
There is a thing that nothing is, and yet it has a name. It's sometimes tall and sometimes short, joins our talks, joins our sport, and plays at every game.
What is a shadow?