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Verb Moods
Punctuation
Verb Voices
Figurative Language
Figurative Language
100
Gives or makes a command.
What is the imperative mood?
100
This punctuation is used to set apart extra information that is not essential.
What is parenthesis?
100
The subject of the sentence is performing or causing the action.
What is active voice?
100
The use of obvious and deliberate exaggeration for emphasis and effect.
What is hyperbole?
100
The comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
200
Expresses a statement, a fact or an opinion.
What is the indicative mood.
200
This is used to show a word break at the end of a line of text.
What is a hyphen?
200
The subject of the sentence is the recipient of the action.
What is passive voice?
200
The occurrence of the same letter at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
200
The comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as”.
What is a metaphor?
300
Asks a question.
What is the interrogative mood?
300
These 3 dots are used to indicate that information has been left out of a quotation.
What is an ellipsis?
300
Name the voice: "Louise made the chocolate cake."
What is active voice?
300
Giving human qualities to an inanimate object, animal or idea.
What is personification?
300
Repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words.
What is assonance?
400
Answers the questions, "what if?".
What is the subjunctive mood?
400
This is used to set apart words for emphasis or to indicate a pause.
What is a dash?
400
Name the voice: "The package was delivered by the mailman."
What is passive voice?
400
Two words used together that have opposite meanings.
What is an oxymoron?
400
Repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of words.
What is consonance?
500
Depends on something else to happen.
What is the conditional mood?
500
Name the punctuation used in this sentence: "Seventy-five students turned in an essay".
What is a hyphen?
500
Change the sentence to active voice: "My books were stolen by someone yesterday".
What is "Someone stole my books yesterday"?
500
A word that mimics the sound of the object it refers to.
What is an onomatopoeia?
500
A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis.
What is repetition?