Grammar
PRS
Poetry
Figurative Language
Mystery Grab Bag
100

Name the Subject(s) in the following sentence:


Craig and I are going to the store tomorrow.

Craig and I

BONUS: Which word in the previous sentence is a pronoun?

100

Define: Retro-

Backwards

100

Define: Stanza

A "chunk" in a poem/a paragraph within a poem.

100

Define: Simile

A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."

100

What Harry Potter House is known for its intellegence?

Ravenclaw

200

Name the verb(s) in the following sentence:


The box is completely wet.

Is

200

Define: Vent-

To come

200

What is the rhyme scheme in the following:

"If you go to Aw-WawHoo And walk down the beach,

You’ll notice a sort-of-a-bird called the Sneetch

In fact, there are two sorts of Sneetches you’ll find:

 the Star-Belly kind, and the Plain-Belly kind.

the Star-Belly Sneetches have bellies with stars.

the Plain-Belly Sneetches don’t have them on thars."

A, A, B, B, C, C


BONUS: Who wrote this poem?

200

What is the definition of "alliteration?"

Words in a group that start with the same consonant (non-vowel) sound.

200

Who is known as the "Allfather" in Norse Mythology?

Odin

300

What is the subject in the following sentence?

Go to the store and drop this package off at the post office.

(You)

BONUS: Which word is the direct object?

300

What PRS chunk means "to believe?"

Cred-

300

What poetic device is used in the following:


"And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back."

Rhyme Scheme

300

What literary devices in the following:

"And, as in uffish thought he stood,

      The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

      And burbled as it came!"

Metaphor (with eyes of flame)

BONUS: What is the name of this poem?

300

What type of tree is a Christmas tree usually?

Pine/Evergreen

400

What words are in the COMPLETE predicate in this sentence?


There are three annoying dogs outside.

There are


BONUS: Name all of the adjectives in the sentence.

400

What PRS chunk means "to faith/trust?"

Fid-

BONUS: Define Fidelity

400

What is the difference between "repetition" and a "refrain?"

Repetition: Only a few words/lines are repeated.

Refrain: A whole stanza is repeated.

400

Name 3 examples of personification.

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400

Name all the planets in our solar system. (NOT PLUTO!)

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

500

Label all the words with the part of speech they are in the following sentence:

The dogs and I are going on a walk.

The (article) dogs (subject noun) and (conjunction) I (subject noun) are (helping verb) going (verb) on (preposition) a (article) walk (object of the preposition)

500

Define: -ive

Tending to/do

500

In the poem, The Rose that Grew from Concrete, what was the rose a metaphor for?

The author/poet (Tupac)

500

Define: Oxymoron

Contradicting terms


BONUS: Give an example of an oxymoron.

500

If you start at the North Pole and then go south 3000 miles, go east for 400 miles, then go north for 3000 miles, where will you be?

The North Pole