Can you name it?
What are the nouns in the following sentence:
Adam walked his dog around the neighborhood after dinner.
Adam
Dog
Neighborhood
Dinner
In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the title character laments, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more." What type of figurative language is used in the phrase "Life's but a walking shadow"?
What is the best selling video game of all time?
Minecraft
is a part of speech used to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. Common examples include and, but, or, and because.
Conjunction
How would you correctly uses commas to set off a nonessential (non-restrictive) clause in the following sentence? (This is also known as an appositive!)
- The professor who taught at the university for twenty years retired last spring.
The professor, who taught at the university for twenty years, retired last spring.
What part of speech is the underlined word?
He tried hard to fix the broken engine before night fell.
Adverb
In Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death," she writes, "Because I could not stop for Death – / He kindly stopped for me –". Which figurative device is primarily at work here?
Personification
Who won the world cup 2026?
Spain! They beat Argentina 1-0
a word that shows an action, an event, or a state of being.
Verb
Is this sentence correct?
The waiter was serving the food to the hungry guests, and filling up their glasses with water.
What part of speech is the word "was" in the following sentence: "She was reading a book when the phone rang."
Helping verb
"I've told you a million times to clean your room!" Which type of figurative language is demonstrated here?
Hyperbole
Which 1982 album by Michael Jackson remains the best-selling album of all time, shifting the landscape of the pop music industry?
Thriller
a phrase or expression whose total meaning is different from the literal meanings of the individual words. You cannot understand it just by looking up each word's basic definition; the words work together as a unique cultural phrase.
Idiom
Add 1 semicolon and 1 comma to this sentence to make it correct:
I love reading classical literature however I also enjoy modern science fiction.
I love reading classical literature; however, I also enjoy modern science fiction.
A semicolon connects two independent clauses (similar to a coordinating conjunction)!
In the sentence "We will leave before the sun sets," what is the part of speech of the word before?
subordinating conjunction
In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo says, "O brawling love! O loving hate!" and "O heavy lightness!" These contradictory pairings of words are examples of which figurative device?
Oxymoron
In what year was the first Apple iPhone released?
2007
is a figure of speech that gives human traits, emotions, or actions to non-human things, like objects, animals, or ideas
Personification
Which option best corrects the comma splice in the following sentence? "The weather was beautiful we decided to go to the beach."
"The weather was beautiful; we decided to go to the beach."
In the sentence "No one but the brave deserves the fair," what is the part of speech of the word but?
Preposition
In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Antony addresses the crowd with, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." What type of figurative language is "ears"?
Synecdoche
How much does a cloud weigh? (closest answer gets the points!)
Around 1 million pounds
a word that phonetically mimics or resembles the sound of the thing it describes.
onomatopoeia
We visited these 3 places:
Paris, France
Madrid, Spain
Rome, Italy
Create a sentence listing the places you visited using the correct punctuation.
We visited Paris, France; Madrid, Spain; and Rome, Italy.