Language Arts Trivia Flashcards

1

What is the main character in a story?

Protagonist
Antagonist
Static character
Adversary

2

The fingers of the wind tangled my hair is an example of...

Exaggeration
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile

3

What is onomatopoeia?

Making a thing seem human.
The formation of a word by imitating the sound it makes.
A comparison of like things.
An exaggeration.

4

What is writing that tells a story?

Narrative
Expository
Limerick
Sonnet

5

What do we call a statement that tells what a person believes?

Fantasy
Comment
Fact
Opinion

6

What are the two main parts of a sentence?

A capitol and a period.
A subject and a predicate.
A noun and an adjective.
A beginning and an end.

7

What is the time and place of a story?

Starbucks
Plot
Rising action
Setting

8

What is a synonym?

A word that is spelled the same but has a different meaning
A word that means nearly the same as another word
A word that imitates sounds.
A word that describes.

9

Which word in this sentence is a verb? "The baby kangaroo was cute and cuddly."

kangaroo
was
cute
cuddly

10

Expository writing

Tells a story
None of the above
Explains something
Persuades someone to do something

11

Her hair is like silk is an example of

Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Metaphor

12

An autobiography is

A true account of a person written by that person.
A waste of time.
A story that is made up.
A true account of a person written by someone else.

13

Which one is an adjective?

Slowly
Hairy
Tennis
Tent

14

What punctuation is used in a contraction?

Colon
Apostrophe
Comma
Parenthesis

15

What word names a person, place or thing?

Preposition
Noun
Adjective
Verb

Language Arts Trivia

Questions 15

Language Arts Trivia

Questions 15