Descriptive Writing
Figurative Language
Sentence Types
SVMs
Parts of Speech
100
Vermillion is a more specific shade of this general color.
What is red?
100
Identify the figurative language device used in the following sentence. Manuel's mind was like a steel trap; he never forgot anything.
What is a simile?
100
This sentence type has a subject and a verb and expresses a single complete thought.
What is a simple sentence?
100
An appositive phrase describes the _______ and then names the ______.
What is the subject?
100
This part of speech represents a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
200
We, us, and our are all examples of _____ person point of view.
What is first person POV?
200
Identify the figurative language technique used: That year, the advent of spring filled the garden with flowers and the hum of thousands of bees.
What is a onomatopoeia?
200
Identify the following sentence as simple, compound, or complex: Julie and Debbie have 5 brothers and 4 sisters.
What is a simple sentence?
200
In a sentence that ___________ the subject, the verb will come before the subject in the sentence.
What is postpones?
200
There are only 3 articles: ____, ____, and ____.
What are a, an, and the?
300
Identify the POV of the following sentence: Halloween is rapidly approaching, and children everywhere are already choosing costumes.
What is third person POV?
300
Identify the figurative language device used in the following sentence. Jamel quietly clicked his pen as he searched for the right words.
What is alliteration?
300
Identify the conjunction and sentence type in the following example: Who are you, and where do you come from?
What is the conjunction "and" in a compound sentence?
300
The following sentence begins with this type of phrase: To join the first manned mission to Mars was Maria's primary goal.
What is an infinitive?
300
Examples of this type of phrase include the following: in the house on my desk against the closet door
What is a prepositional phrase?
400
This punctuation mark can be used in place of a comma and conjunction to combine two sentences.
What is a semicolon?
400
Identify the figurative language device used in the following sentence. The baker expertly rolled the dough into oval shapes.
What is assonance?
400
This sentence type contains one main clause and one subordinate clause.
What is a complex sentence?
400
Sentences which begin with prepositions, adverbs, and subordinate clauses will all need this type of punctuation mark.
What is a comma?
400
This type of phrase is found in the following sentence: The students, the ones who studied, were very pleased with their grades.
What is an appositive phrase?
500
Write a sentence that uses three specific colors to describe the night sky.
Opalescent stars glitter in the ink black sky around a silver moon.
500
Identify the figurative language device used in the following sentence. Sarai stood on the surface of the alien planet struggling to find the right words; "We are not in Kansas anymore," she whispered, grabbing her little sister's hand.
What is allusion?
500
Write a compound-complex sentence.
Since we have reviewed, and I have studied, this exam is going to be a piece of cake!
500
Write an SVM 9 sentence that begins with a subordinate clause.
Because I know how to write a complex sentence properly, my team will score 500 points!
500
The _______ is who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?