Second Formative: Unit 1

Question 1

Tells whom or what a sentence is about

Answer 1

the subject

Question 2

The subject of a sentence is always what part of speech?

Answer 2

noun

Question 3

What is a noun?

Answer 3

A person, place, or thing

Question 4

What is the difference between a common noun and proper noun?

Answer 4

a common noun names a generic person, place, or thing
a proper noun names a specific person, place or thing

Question 5

Tells what the subject is or does in a sentence

Answer 5

the predicate

Question 6

The predicate always includes what part of speech?

Answer 6

a verb

Question 7

What is a linking verb?

Answer 7

a verb that does not express an action

Question 8

What are examples of linking verbs?

Answer 8

am, is, was, were, be, been

Question 9

What is the subject in this sentence?
The leaf flutters softly to the ground.

Answer 9

leaf

Question 10

What is the predicate in this sentence?
The leaf flutters softly to the ground.

Answer 10

flutters softly to the ground

Question 11

What is the verb in this sentence? Is it an action verb or linking verb?
The leaf flutters softly to the ground.

Answer 11

flutters
Action

Question 12

What is the predicate in this sentence?
The dog was exhausted after his walk.

Answer 12

was exhausted after his walk

Question 13

What is the subject in this sentence?
The dog was exhausted after his walk.

Answer 13

dog

Question 14

What is the verb in this sentence? Is it an action verb or linking verb?
The dog was exhausted after his walk.

Answer 14

was
linking

Question 15

What is a pronoun?

Answer 15

words that take place of a noun

Question 16

What is the pronoun in this sentence? What word is it taking the place of?
I saw mom and she looks pretty today!

Answer 16

she
mom

Question 17

What is the pronoun in this sentence?
I bought a guitar and played it all day?

Answer 17

it
guitar

Question 18

What are two forms of pronouns?

Answer 18

subjective pronouns and objective pronouns

Question 19

What is a subjective pronoun?

Answer 19

pronouns that are used as the subject of a sentence
(occurs BEFORE the verb)

Question 20

What is a objective pronoun?

Answer 20

pronouns that are used in the predicate of a sentence
(occurs AFTER the verb)

Question 21

What is the pronoun? Is it subjective or objective?
You must go see The Lion King.

Answer 21

You
subjective

Question 22

What is the pronoun? Is it subjective or objective?
Kevin took the girls with him.

Answer 22

him
objective

Question 23

What is a possessive pronoun?

Answer 23

pronoun that shows ownership

Question 24

What are some examples of possessive pronouns?

Answer 24

mine, his, its, yours, theirs

Question 25

What is "a creative process that uses language to create a response in the reader"?

Answer 25

poetry

Question 26

Poetry is made up of what two things....

Answer 26

lines and stanzas

Question 27

A group of lines is called...

Answer 27

a stanza

Question 28

What is "language writers use to describe things they've seen or imagined."

Answer 28

sensory language

Question 29

What are used to give a piece of writing a certain "sound"?

Answer 29

sound devices

Question 30

The repetition of consonants sounds in words that are close together.

Answer 30

alliteration

Question 31

use of words that sound like their meaning

Answer 31

onomatopoeia

Question 32

The repetition of accented vowel sounds

Answer 32

rhyme

Question 33

What is a word or phrase used often by poets to draw attention to the word

Answer 33

repetition

Question 34

What is the use of imaginative comparisons to help you see the world in new ways?

Answer 34

figurative language

Question 35

What are the five types of figurative language?

Answer 35

1. Simile 2. Idiom 3. Metaphor 4. Personification 5. Hyperbole

Question 36

What is an expression that has a meaning that is different from the literal words?

Answer 36

idiom

Question 37

What is a comparison between two unlike things that does not include the word like or ask?

Answer 37

metaphor

Question 38

What is a description of an object, animal or idea as if it were human or had human qualities?

Answer 38

personification

Question 39

What is a figurative speech that uses exaggeration to create a special effect?

Answer 39

hyperbole

Question 40

What is a message that the author really wants his or her audience to hear?

Answer 40

theme

Question 41

A theme has to apply to three things. What are those three things?

Answer 41

1. Any person 2. Any place 3. Any time

Question 42

What are some examples of themes?

Answer 42

1. Love 2. Friendship 3. War 4. Celebrating nature

Question 43

True or false a theme should be written as a complaint sentence?

Answer 43

True

Question 44

Which point of view is told by one of the characters and uses pronouns I, me, my, etc?

Answer 44

1st Person

Question 45

Which point of view is told by a narrator that is all knowing?

Answer 45

3rd Person Omniscient

Question 46

Which point of view is told using pronouns he, she, him, her, but is only from one characters perspective?

Answer 46

3rd Person Limited

Question 47

What is a comparison between two unlike things that does include the word like or ask?

Answer 47

simile