Elements of Literature
Figurative Language
Word Study
Conventions
100

This is what happens at the very end of the story.

What is the resolution?

100

The word whoosh is an example of this literary element.

What is onomatopoeia?

100

This is the meaning of the root port in the word transport.

What is carry?

100

This is a word or phrase that connects a noun or pronoun to a verb or adjective in a sentence. Usually indicating direction, location, time, etc.

What is a preposition?

200

This is the part of the story where the conflict develops.

What is the rising action?

200

The phrase like a whisper in the air is an example of this literary device.

What is simile? 

200

Based on the meaning of the suffix -ize, this is the meaning of the word colonize.

What is make a colony?

200

I, she, he, etc. are all examples of these.

What is are pronouns?

300

This is another word for the turning point of the story.

What is the climax?

300
The phrase the wind whispered to me is an example of this figurative language.

What is personification?

300

A word that rhymes with glacier

What is pressure (or anything that ends with the "sher" sound)?

300

Examples of these pronouns are mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, yours, and theirs. They replace a noun or noun phrase.

What are possessive pronouns?

400

The idea that the author is trying to convey in the story.

What is the theme?

400

The lines in the poem:

May you hear the whoosh of the breeze

as it passes through the leafy trees show an example of this figurative language.

What is rhyme?

400

The correct way to divide neighborhood into syllables

What is neigh/bor/hood?

400

Someone is an example of this type of pronoun (does not refer to a specific person, place, or thing).

What is an indefinite pronoun?

500

In a play, words in parenthesis show these.

What are stage directions?

500

The phrase is raindrops fell. It's raining cats and dogs she said.

What is a metaphor?

500

The correct spelling

A. adventurous
B. adventureous
C. adventurious

What is adventurous?

500

In the sentence:

James and Anna ate dinner at James and Anna's house

you could replace James and Anna's with this possessive pronoun.

What is their?