Literary Terms
Parts of Speech
Vocabulary
Punctuation
Grammatical Terms
100

A series of connected events which is brought to some kind of a conclusion

What is the plot?

100
Word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
"surpass"
What is : To go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than; exceed?
100
the most versatile punctuation mark; often used to separate phrases or items in a list
What is a comma?
100
the person or thing doing the action or being described
What is a subject?
200
Time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a situation occurs.
What is the setting?
200
Word that replaces the a noun in a sentence
What is a pronoun?
200
"authentic"
What is : not false or copied; genuine; real?
200
a substitute for a missing letter or letters in a word; shows the possessive case
What is an apostrophe?
200
the part of a sentence (or clause) which tells us what the subject does or is
What is the predicate?
300
The main insight or idea about life - sometimes deep, thought-provoking, or moralistic
What is a theme?
300
Modifies a noun or a pronoun and answers these questions: which? what kind of? how many?
What is an adjective?
300
"boisterous"
What is : rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained?
300
curved lines used to separate explanations or qualifying statements within a sentence
What are parentheses?
300
the correspondence of a verb with its subject in person and number, and of a pronoun with its antecedent in person, number, and gender
What is agreement?
400
A literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces
What is the conflict?
400
Modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb and answers these questions: when? where? how? how much? why?
What is an adverb?
400
"indiscriminate"
What is : lacking in care, judgment, or selectivity?
400
a series of three dots used to indicate text has been intentionally left out
What is an ellipsis?
400
a group of words that includes a subject and its related verb but it is not necessarily a sentence
What is a clause?
500

A reference within a story to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature

What is an allusion?

500
a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence
What is a verb
500
"ardor"
What is great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion?
500

used to express doubt or uncertainty about something

What is a question mark?

500
is a word formed from a verb which can be used as an adjective
What is a participle?
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