Grammar & Mechanics
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
What is: an adjective?
A(n) _____________ clause can stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is: an independent clause?
Independent clauses have a subject, a verb and expresses a complete thought.
Dependent clauses has a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought.
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
The sections that poetry is organized by are called __________.
What is a stanza?
Stanzas are the building blocks of poems. They are the equivalent of a paragraph or verse.In the following sentence, what type of punctuation is missing?
For the centerpieces, the florist recommended the following flowers daisies, tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths.
What is: a colon
For the centerpieces, the florist recommended the following: flowers daisies, tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths.
A colon is used before a list of items.
A _____________ sentence contains just one independent clause.
What is: a simple sentence?
This is an example of what type of irony.
What is situational irony?
Situational irony occurs when the audience is expected one thing to happen, but the opposite happens instead.
Verbal irony occurs when someone says the opposite of what they mean.
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that characters in the story do not.
This type of poetic device occurs when the beginning consonant sound of words are repeated.
What is an alliteration?
EX: Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
This part of speech modifies an adjective, verb, or other word group.
What is: an adverb?
EX: He quickly ran back into the house.This type of sentence has at least two independent clauses.
What is: a compound sentence?
EX: The dog ran away, and I chased after him.
Compound sentences have two independent clauses that are joined by a coordinating conjunction (For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
This is an example of what type of figurative language.
What is personification?
Personification assigns human-like qualities to non-human things or inanimate objects.
____________ is the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes.
What is assonance?
Examples of assonance across words include: crying time; hop-scotch; great flakes; between trees; and, the kind knight rides by.
The following passage is written in what point of view.
The dew on the grass made my running shoes damp. It didn't bother me. The sound of my feet hitting the street formed a rhythm, a steady pattern of light thumps. I timed my breathing with the rhythm. These sounds filled my head. I thought of nothing other than the next step and keeping my tempo. I soared over the sidewalks like concrete clouds.
What is first person?
The first person point of view uses the pronouns “I,” “me,” “we,” and “us,” in order to tell a story from the narrator's perspective.
In the following sentence, what type of punctuation is missing:
Lily is an accomplished gymnast she won three medals in her last competition.
What is: a semi-colon
Lily is an accomplished gymnast; she won three medals in her last competition.
A semi-colon is used to join two complete sentence without using a conjunction.The following is an example of what type of sentence:
Because the soup was too cold, I warmed it in the microwave.
What is: a complex sentence?
Complex sentences contain a dependent clause and a independent clause. When the dependent clause comes before the independent clause, the clauses need a comma; otherwise, no punctuation is necessary.
This is an example of what type of figurative language.
If I’m not home by midnight, my car might turn into a pumpkin.
What is allusion?
An allusion is a reference to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work that the reader is presumably familiar with. It typically refers to well known things.
In the following is an example of what type of figurative language.
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas…
What is a metaphor?
Metaphor is a common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object.
The following passage is an example of which point of view.
Red looked across the prairie. He didn't see anything concerning. He wondered why Texas Joe had hollered like that. Texas Joe turned to him. The ghost that Texas Joe had just seen was gone. Texas Joe swatted at the air. Now he felt crazy. "You have to believe me, Red. It was just here," said Texas Joe. Red scowled at him in disbelief. "What was just here, Joe?" he asked. Red was angry with Texas Joe for disturbing his sleep for no apparent reason.
What is third-person omniscient?
Third-person point of view occurs when someone outside of the story is telling it. Limited third-person only allows the reader to know what one character is thinking/feeling, while Omniscient third-person allows the reader to know everyone's thoughts/feelings.
This is a word formed from a verb and used as an adjective or noun.
What is: a participle?
Adjective: working woman
Noun: good breeding
The following sentence is an example of what type of sentence:
Though Mitchell prefers watching romantic films, he rented the latest spy thriller, and he enjoyed it very much.
What is: a compound-complex sentence?
A compound-complex sentence contains at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
The following phrase is an example of what type of figurative language.
"I knew you were getting cold feet!"
What is an idiom?
An idiom is a word or phrase whose meaning is not literal. The phrase is meant to create an image, association, or other effect in the mind of the listener or reader that goes beyond the literal meaning or expected use of the words involved.
Ex: Kick the bucket; raining cats and dogs
An ______________ is a line of poetry in which a sentence or phrase comes to a conclusion at the end of the line.
What is an end-stopped line?
The easiest way to tell if a line is end-stopped is to look for punctuation at the end. That might include a comma, colon, semi-colon, dash, period, question mark, exclamation point, or ellipsis.
What is the central idea of the following passage?
Being a clown isn't all fun and games. Rodeo clowns expose themselves to great danger every time they perform. When cowboys dismount or bulls buck them off, rodeo clowns jump in front of the bulls and motion wildly to get their attention. In this way rodeo clowns provide an alternate target, and in doing so protect the rider. Of course, this is a very dangerous thing to do. So you see, sometimes clowning around can be serious business.
Rodeo clowns protect cowboys by putting themselves in danger.