Parts of Speech Figurative Language Punctuation Genre Potpourri
100
What is a Noun?
A Person, Place, or Thing.
100
What is a Simile?
This makes a comparison using "like" or "as."

Example: "He's growing like a weed."
100
What is a Comma?
Punctuation used to separate items in a sentence.
100
What is Non-Fiction?
True Stories
100
What is Indent or Indenting?
Done at the beginning of a new paragraph.
200
What is a Verb?
This part of speech describes action.
200
What is an Idiom?
A phrase or saying that means something different than what it says.

Example: "She has butterflies in her stomach!"
200
What is an Exclamation Mark
You put this punctuation after "TOUCHDOWN"
200
What is Fiction?
Stories that are NOT true.
200
What are Articles?
The, A, An
300
What is a Conjunction?
This part of speech hooks together words and phrases and clauses.
300
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."
300
What are Quotation Marks?
Use these in writing to show someone is speaking.
300
What is a Biography?
This is what you call it when you write a true story about someone else's life.
300
What is an Apostrophe?
This shows ownership.
400
What is a Pronoun?
This part of speech is used in place of a Noun.
400
What is Personification.
Giving an object human feeling or emotion.

Example: "The wind howled in rage."
400
What is a Question Mark?
This ends an interrogative statement.
400
What is an Autobiography?
This is what you call it when you write a true story about your own life.
400
What are Verbs, or Helping Verbs
Is, Was, Were, Has, Will, Does, Could
500
What is "to" followed by a verb?
examples: to jump; to play; to swim, to go
An Infintive.
500
What is Onomatopoeia?
A word that spells out the sound it makes.

Examples: "Crash!," "Pow!" and "Boom!"
500
What is a semi-colon?
Use this when linking two or more ideas in one sentence.
500
What is Science Fiction, or Historical Fiction, or Realistic Fiction, or Horror Fiction, or Mystery Fiction, etc.
Name a specific type of Fiction.
500
What is a Comic Book?
Other name for Graphic Novel.






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