Parts of Speech
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
Compares 2 unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
A statement that appears to contradict itself, but still may be true.
What is a paradox?
Made up of an independent and dependent clause joined by a subordinating conjunction.
What is a complex sentence?
The message.
What is theme?
The word expressing action in a sentence.
What is a verb?
Sound words.
What is an Onomatopeia?
A play on words in sound but different in meanings.
What is a pun?
A complete thought with a subject and predicate and can stand alone.
What is a simple sentence?
Not stated directly but a reader understands from clues in the text.
What is textual evidence?
A specific person, place, or thing.
A set of words that can have more than one meaning.
What is an idiom?
Word meaning definition.
What is denotative?
A group of words with a subject and predicate?
What is a clause?
Most important topic in the text.
What is main/central idea?
Describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
An exaggeration so dramatic no one will believe it.
What is a hyperbole?
To convince or get someone to agree.
What is to persuade?
Can stand alone.
What is an independent clause?
Telling the story in your own words.
Wha tis a summary?
Joins words or groups of words.
Gives human characteristics to non-human tings.
What is personification?
Presents information and factual details.
What is expository?
A word or phrase that tells more about someone or something.
What is an appositive?
To discover or reveal something through detailed examination.
What is analyze?