ELA NSCAS

What is an adverb?

• An action word

• A word that describes another word

• A descriptive word

• A person, place, or thing

What is a pronoun?

• A person

• An describing word

• Words that replace nouns

• The end to a sentence

Replace the underlined noun is this sentence: Can I go play at Crystal's house?

• her

• she

• it

• our

Replace the underlined noun is this sentence: Jim and Kim broke the new toy.

• They

• Them

• you

• he

Replace the underlined noun is this sentence: Liam ran after the cat.

• it

• she

• her

• they

What is an idiom?

• A bird?

• A device used to confuse the reader.

• A word or phrase that does not mean what it says.

• A group of words that begin with the same sound.

Identify the simile

• I like apples.

• Apples taste sweet.

• You're the apple of my eye.

• This apple is as sweet as candy.

Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.

• My heart is a muscle.

• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.

• My heart is like a muscle.

My father is a bear in the morning.

• simile

• metaphor

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes

• compares two unlike things using the words like or as

• compares two similar things 

• tells what a person is doing