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Grammar Inventory
Circle the COMMON NOUNS in the sentences below:
1.
The cat ate her food.
Circle the PREPOSITIONS in the sentences below:
2. The squirrel ran up the tree.
16. Jose jumped into the pond.
3. John had to cut the grass.
17. Michael ran with his brother to the playground.
18. After the storm, we went to the game.
Circle the PROPER NOUNS in the sentences below:
4.
Sally is her best friend at school.
5. Gone with the Wind is Mary’s favorite novel.
6. Dominion High School is the best school in
Virginia.
Circle the ADVERBS in the sentences below:
19. She waited patiently for the teacher to write
the note.
20. The frogs sat watching the flies hungrily.
21. Lately, we hope to see our neighbors in the
afternoon.
Circle the PRONOUNS in the sentences below:
7.
How do you know them?
8. They went to eat at Pizza Hunt last week with
us.
9. When will you go to see them?
Correctly label each sentence as one of the following:
simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex
22. _________The computer crashed, so I lost all of
my work.
23. _________The manager and the staff
negotiated and compromised successfully.
Circle the VERBS in the sentences below:
10. Sam jumped over the hurdle.
11. I ran the mile in under 10 minutes.
12. Maggie sneezed during the test.
Circle the ADJECTIVES in the sentences below:
13. Where is the pretty girl?
14. My favorite movie is on TV.
15. I enjoy eating Italian food.
24. _________While Tom reads novels, Jack reads
comics, but Sam only reads magazines.
25. _________While the economy was good, the
company grew.
Literary Devices Inventory
Circle the sentence that contains a simile.
Circle the sentence that contains alliteration.
16. Each evening we eat peaches.
17. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
1.
Her hair is golden as the sunshine.
18. Lucky Sue utilizes us.
2. Life is a journey.
3. The bacon sizzled in the hot pan.
Literary Terms Inventory
1. In your own words, what is juxtaposition?
Circle the sentence that contains a metaphor.
4.
Her hair is golden as the sunshine.
5. Life is a journey.
2. In your own words, what is tone?
6. The bacon sizzled in the hot pan.
Circle the sentence that contains onomatopoeia.
7.
3. In your own words, what is mood?
Her hair is golden as the sunshine.
8. Life is a journey.
9. The bacon sizzled in the hot pan.
4. In your own words, what is a meter?
Circle the sentence that contains a hyperbole.
10. The cars crashed at the stop light.
5. In your own words, what are prose?
11. I am so hungry that I could eat a horse.
12. Life is a journey.
Circle the sentence that contains assonance.
13. Each evening we eat peaches.
14. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
15. Sally saw seashells by the seashore.
6. In your own words, define the 3 literary
point of views.