Parts of Speech | Figurative Language | Punctuation | Genre | Potpourri |
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What is a Noun?
A Person, Place, or Thing.
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What is a Simile?
This makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
Example: "He's growing like a weed." |
What is a Comma?
Punctuation used to separate items in a sentence.
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What is Non-Fiction?
True Stories
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What is Indent or Indenting?
Done at the beginning of a new paragraph.
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What is a Verb?
This part of speech describes action.
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What is an Idiom?
A phrase or saying that means something different than what it says.
Example: "She has butterflies in her stomach!" |
What is an Exclamation Mark
You put this punctuation after "TOUCHDOWN"
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What is Fiction?
Stories that are NOT true.
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What are Articles?
The, A, An
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What is a Conjunction?
This part of speech hooks together words and phrases and clauses.
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What is a Metaphor?
This uses the helping verbs is, was, were, etc. to compare two things.
Examples: "He was a mountain!" or "She is a toothpick." |
What are Quotation Marks?
Use these in writing to show someone is speaking.
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What is a Biography?
This is what you call it when you write a true story about someone else's life.
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What is an Apostrophe?
This shows ownership.
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What is a Pronoun?
This part of speech is used in place of a Noun.
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What is Personification.
Giving an object human feeling or emotion.
Example: "The wind howled in rage." |
What is a Question Mark?
This ends an interrogative statement.
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What is an Autobiography?
This is what you call it when you write a true story about your own life.
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What are Verbs, or Helping Verbs
Is, Was, Were, Has, Will, Does, Could
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What is "to" followed by a verb?
examples: to jump; to play; to swim, to go
An Infintive.
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What is Onomatopoeia?
A word that spells out the sound it makes.
Examples: "Crash!," "Pow!" and "Boom!" |
What is a semi-colon?
Use this when linking two or more ideas in one sentence.
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What is Science Fiction, or Historical Fiction, or Realistic Fiction, or Horror Fiction, or Mystery Fiction, etc.
Name a specific type of Fiction.
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What is a Comic Book?
Other name for Graphic Novel.
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