Grammar
This is a person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
These are the beings that inhabit the book and who carry out the action in it.
What are characters?
This is the part of the sentence that DOES the action
What is the subject?
When a person makes a comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This word means real or actual.
What is literal?
The words “a,” “an,” and “the” are the only 3 examples of this type of word in English.
What is an article?
This is the time and place of a book.
What is the setting?
A complete sentence that can stand on its own.
What is an independent clause or a simple sentence?
A type of figurative language exaggerates reality by one billion times.
What is hyperbole?
This is a poetic paragraph, or, in other words, a section of poetry.
What is a stanza?
A word that modifies verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
What is an adverb?
This is when an item or a person stands for an idea or concept.
What is a symbol?
The person or thing that receives the action in a sentence.
This is a reference in one piece of art to another piece of art.
What is an allusion?
This is the author’s view of a subject which comes through in diction and stylistic choices.
What is tone?
A word that connects other words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
This is the narrator’s position in relation to the story being told.
What is point of view?
This type of sentence connects two independent clauses using a coordinating conjunction
What is a compound sentence?
The objective definition of a word agreed upon by most dictionaries.
What is denotation?
This is the act of placing two similar things next to each other to examine their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
A word that indicates a relationship or direction
What is a preposition?
When a character’s problem comes from within him or her.
What is internal conflict?
If a sentence connects two clauses and makes one dependent on the other it must use this kind of conjunction.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
This umbrella term explains any type of comparison.
What is an analogy?
A turn of phrase that makes something out to be less important, serious, or bad than it actually is.
What is understatement?