Vocabulary
L8-11
Vocabulary
L12-15
Literary Terms
Parts of Speech
Simple Sentences
100
A minor fight or battle
What is skirmish?
100
The surrounding of a place in order to force it to surrender.
What is siege?
100
The story builds down to the ending
What is falling action?
100
Define noun
A person, place, thing, quality, or idea
100
List the four formulas
SV, SSV, SVV, SSVV
200
To keep up; to support
What is sustain?
200
A condition that makes life difficult
What is rigor?
200
Where and when the story takes place.
What is setting?
200
of, with, in, over, to from, under - things a squirrel does to a tree
What are prepositions?
200
Define compound subject
Two or more main subjects in a sentence
300
Free time note taken up with work.
What is leisure?
300
To let got; to give up
What is relinquish?
300
The solution to the problem
What is resolution?
300
A, an, the
What are articles?
300
Two or more main verbs in a sentence
What is compound verb?
400
To complain
What is gripe?
400
Rate of movement; speed
What is velocity?
400
An implied comparison between two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
400
The term used when the subject and verb in a sentence agree with each other.
What is subject-verb agreement?
400
DAILY DOUBLE When the main verb has two or more words
What is verb phrase?
500
An opinion or strong feeling formed without careful thought or regard to the facts.
What is prejudice?
500
Nothing more than; only
What is mere?
500
DAILY DOUBLE A figure of speech in which two items are compared by using the terms like or as
What is a simile?
500
What is the predicate?
The verb of the sentence.
500
What word cannot go in front of a main verb, and what is it called when it is in front of a word that looks like the verb?
to, an infinitive
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