Parts of Speech
Parts of Speech Part 2
Text Structure
Figurative Language
Figurative Language continued.
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What is a noun?
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
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What is an adjective?
What is is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun
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What is compare and contrast?
Compare = find similarities Contrast = find differences Shows what’s in common and what’s different
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What is a simile?
What is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as?
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What is onomatopoeia?
What is a word from a sound associated with what is named?
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What is a pronoun?
What is a word used to replace a noun?
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A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence. There are 7 of them in the English Language. (hint: I have described them using an acronym)
What is FANBOYS? For And Nor But Or Yet So
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What is problem and solution?
What is the author states a problem and solution(s). Similar to cause and effect.
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What is metaphor?
What is a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as?
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What is imagery?
What is visually descriptive or figurative language? Paints a picture in the readers minds
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What is a verb?
What are words that show action or help make a statement
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What is preposition?
What is a word that relates parts of the sentence using direction, location, or time Most Common preposition is: to Examples: after, before, at, between
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What is cause and effect?
What is explains reasons why something happened.. or explains the effects of something
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What is hyperbole?
What is an extreme exaggeration? Exaggerated statements not to be taken literally
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What is irony?
What is words that are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the word
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What is an adverb?
What is modifies adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs
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What is an interjection?
What is a word that expresses sudden or strong feeling. (bam, burrrr, ow!, ouch!)
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What is sequence?
What is steps described in the order which they occur? step-by-step (example: cooking directions)
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What is personification?
What is giving inanimate objects and or animals, and or ideas human like characteristics?
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What is an oxymoron?
What are words that two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. common oxymoron phrase is a combination of an adjective proceeded by a noun with contrasting meanings, e.g. “cruel kindness” or “small crowd"
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An article is a word used to modify a noun, which is a person, place, object or idea. What are the 3 articles in the English Language? What is A, AN, THE?
What is A, AN, THE?
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What are the three types of verbs?
What is linking, helping, action? OR What is past, present, future?
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What is chronological order?
What are stories are told in order of time? (timeline)
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What is an alliteration?
what is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words?
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What is an allusion?
what is a phrase that gives a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. Example: “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.” – “Romeo” is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo, a passionate lover of Juliet, in “Romeo and Juliet”.
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