ON THE DIAGRAM
It is a visual representation of a sentence.
What is a diagram?
Called this when with a group of words.
What is a prepositional phrase?
Be, look, taste, seem, feel are examples of these.
What are linking verbs?
The device in this line: Her smile was like sunlight breaking through a stormy sky.
What is a simile?
It can modify another adverb.
What is an adverb?
It goes on the right side of the diagram.
What is the verb?
The phrase ends with this.
What is an object?
Hungry is this in this sentence: I feel hungry.
What is a predicate adjective?
The device in this line: Her laughter shook the stars and echoed across the universe.
What is hyperbole?
"Gold" is this grammar point in this sentence: The miners found a lot of gold in the mountains.
What is a direct object?
It goes on the left side of a diagram.
What is the subject?
It goes on a slanted line between a dependent and independent clause.
What is a subordinate conjunction?
"Father" is this in this sentence: That man in the car is my father."
What is a predicate nominative?
The device in this line: The wind danced through the trees, whispering secrets to the leaves.
Who is personification?
"Me" is this grammar point in the following sentence:
Mama gave ME money but I lost it.
What is an indirect object?
It goes on a straight line and between two independent clauses.
What is a coordinating conjunction.
It is called an adverb
What is a prepositional phrase that modifies an adjective or adverb called?
"Stole" and "ran" are this in this sentence: He stole the money and ran away.
What is a compound verb?
The device in this line: The broken chain lay rusting, a quiet testament to freedom lost.
What is symbolism?
The following is this sentence type: I wanted to go to the zoo but I could not go because it was raining too hard.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
It goes on a slanted line between a dependent and independent clause.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
A prepositional phrase does this (so do adjectives and adverbs).
What is modify?
Predicate
What is another name for verb.
The device in this line: The fireman’s house burned brightest on the quiet street.
What is irony?
"Although," "before," "when" are some examples of this.
What is a subordinating conjunction?