ela vocab
What is a verb?
a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
What is an adverb?
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there).
What is a hyperbole?
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a metaphor?
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is a poem?
a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.
What is a pronoun?
a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this).
What is an oxymoron?
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).
What is a proverb?
a short pithy saying in general use, stating a general truth or piece of advice.
What is a simile?
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox).
What is a plot?
literary term used to describe the events that make up a story.
What is a noun?
a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).
What is an onomatopoeia?
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle).
the use of onomatopoeia for rhetorical effect.
What is an adverb?
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there)
What is personification?
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is a novel
a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.
What is an adjective?
a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
What is alliteration?
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is a rhetoric?
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
What is irony?
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is an autobiography?
an account of a person's life written by that person.
What is a preposition?
a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for?”
What is an idiom?
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light).
What is a pun
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
What is personification?
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
How many days left at school in person?
32