Starter quiz

  • What is a noun?
    • A describing word.
    • An action word.
    • A punctuation type.
    • A name, object or place.  ✓
    • A word that describes a verb.
  • What is a verb?
    • A word to describe a noun.
    • A word that tells us where something is.
    • A word to describe how someone does something.
    • An action word, that tells us what someone or something does.  ✓
  • What is a simile?
    • Saying something is something else.
    • Using the same sound at the beginning of two consecutive words.
    • When a word resembles the sound it makes.
    • Giving human characteristics to an inanimate object.
    • Comparing two things using the words 'like' or 'as'.  ✓
  • What is a simple sentence?
    • A sentence with a conjunction.
    • A sentence with a subject and verb.  ✓
    • A sentence with ambitious punctuation.
    • A sentence with an independent and subordinate clause.
    • A sentence with only a verb.
  • Which literary technique is this? Describing an object in a way that is not literally true.
    • Onomatopoeia
    • Alliteration
    • Pathetic fallacy
    • Metaphor  ✓
    • Adverbial phrase
  • What is the purpose of an adverbial phrase?
    • To add more information to the sentence.  ✓
    • To describe a noun.
    • To compare two things.
    • To make a sentence longer.
    • To make a sentence shorter.
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