Parts of Speech
Author's Purpose
Subject and Predicate
Literary Genres
Sports (2010-2025)
100

The part of speech that is a word that names a person, place, or thing.

What is a noun?

100

An Author writes a book about the history of basketball

What is "to inform"?

100

The subject in the sentence: "The cat sleeps on the couch."

What is cat?

100

Literary genre includes stories about futuristic technology and space travel

Science fiction

100

The team won the Super Bowl in 2024

The Kansas City Chiefs

200

The part of speech that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb

What is an adverb?

200

An author’s purpose in a commercial that tries to sell a new phone 

What is persuade?

200

The complete predicate in: "The students finished their homework before class." 

"What is- finished their homework before class."? 

200

The genre includes stories based on real events and people but with some fictional details

Historical fiction

200

Won the NBA MVP award in 2021

Nikola Jokić

300

The part of speech connects words, phrases, or clauses, such as "and" or "but 

What is a conjunction?

300

An author's purpose is used when writing a novel or short story

What is to entertain?

300

The type of sentence has a compound subject-

What is a compound sentence?

300

A genre includes short stories with talking animals and a moral at the end

Fable

300

In 2016, which team made history by coming back from a 3-1 deficit to win the NBA Finals

Cleveland Cavaliers

400

The interjection in this sentence: "Wow! That was an amazing game!" 

What is "Wow"?

400

An author's three main types

What is to persuade, inform, and to entertain?

400

The simple predicate in: "After the long day, Mia eagerly read her favorite book." 

What is read?

400

A biography is about someone’s life written by another person; an autobiography is written by the person themselves.

The difference between a biography and an autobiography

400

The country hosted the 2020 (held in 2021) Summer Olympics

Japan

500

What part of speech is the word “quickly” in the sentence: "She quickly ran to the store"

What is an adverb?

500

The author's purpose of a satire piece that mocks politics-

What is to entertain or possibly persuade through humor?

500

The difference between a complete predicate and a simple predicate

A complete predicate includes the verb and all its modifiers, while a simple predicate is just the verb.)

500

A story set in a society that is frightening, oppressive, or controlled, often warning about the future pian novel

A dystopian novel

500

The youngest player to reach 500 career home runs in Major League Baseball history 

Alex Rodriguez