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100

A person, place, thing and an idea.

Noun

100

The old man walked slowly

Adjective

100

The past tense of swim

Swam

100

1 example of punctuation

. , ! ?

100

I tried explaining to my mom that the leftover lunch in the fridge was ____________.

A. Mines

B. Mine

C. Minne

B. Mine

200

An Action

Verb

200

The man was texting on his phone

Verb

200

What is a central message of a story called?

Theme

200

What word does this definition go with?

Something that does not change; something known to be true.

Fact

200

A story that is not real, the story is made up.

Fiction

300

Describing something

Adjective

300
  • the house.
  • my dog.
  • the teacher.
  • the child.

Nouns

300

I forgot my umbrella at school so I got soaked on my way home.

A. Compare/contrast

B. Problem/solution

C. Cause/effect

C. Cause/effect

300

What is the contraction of had not?

Hadn't

300

Girl, pink, gigantic, eclectic 

These words are examples of what part of speech?

Adjectives

400

The word that starts the sentence

An Article

Example: The

400

Lightning danced across the sky.

Personification

400

The girl found a multitude of baseball cards in an old shoe box.

What does Multitude mean?

A. Dirty

B. Many

C. Dusty

B. Many

400

What is wrong with the following sentence:

The twins jumped on the bed and bumped there heads

(*If you want a hint for how many errors in this sentence, you will lose 200 points from the 400.)

There should be a period at the end.

400

Which author's purpose: The author tries to convince the reader to do/try something?

Persuade 

500

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Personification 

500
  • The English teacher is absent today.
  • I saw a bird sitting on the tree in front of my house.

Articles

500

To find the differences and similarities between the two stories.

Compare & Contrast 

500

What is a theme?


The lesson or moral found in a story.


500

What is the difference between Mrs., Ms., and Miss?

Mrs.-a woman who is married

Ms.-a woman who was married but is not anymore

Miss-a woman who is not and has never been married