Figurative Language
The example of an onomatopoea in this sentence:
The dog barked at the squirrel and kept me awake until I cried.
What is barked?
The coordinating conjunction in this sentence:
I went to the store, and he went to the pool.
What is and?
I didn´t go to the store because of the rain.
What is because?
A group of words that contains a subject, a predicate, or neither.
What is a phrase?
Contains a subject, a verb, and is a complete thought.
This is a comparison made between two things using the words ¨like¨ or ¨as.¨
What is a simile?
The coordinating conjunction in this sentence:
I couldn´t go to the dance, for my grades were too low.
What is for?
The subordinating conjunction in this sentence:
I went to school after brushing my teeth.
What is after?
The phrase in this sentence.
In the morning, he left.
What is in the morning?
An independent clause.
What is the sentence ¨It is.¨
This commonly used piece of figurative language involves comparing two items by saying that one thing is the other.
What is a metaphor?
She doesn´t like John, nor is John fond of her.
What is nor?
The subordinating conjunction in this sentence:
The dog was scared so he went under the bed.
What is under?
The phrase in this sentence:
Earth is the third planet from the sun.
What is the third planet from the sun?
A clause that has only a subject.
What is a dependent clause?
This is the type of figurative language used in the following sentence:
The skies wept, their hearts as broken as Emilyś.
What is personification?
He doesn´t like chocolate, ___ his grandma buys it for him anyway.
What is but?
What a subordinating conjunction typically tells you about part of the sentence.
What is when or where?
The phrase in this sentence:
We went to the movie after dinner.
What is after dinner?
A dependent clause.
What is ¨her piano¨
This is a form of figurative language wherein the author paints a picture in the readerś mind.
What is imagery?
These are the most common coordinating conjunctions.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
What a subordinating conjunction is called when it appears at the beginning of a sentence.
What is a preposition?
These are examples of five subordinating conjunctions.
What are under, over, above, always, after, when, where, ...?
Yes.
Can a dependent clause have neither a subject nor a predicate?