Parts of Speech
American Lit- I
Word Skills & Parts of Speech
American Lit - II
Vocabulary
100
A word that names a SPECIFIC person, place, thing or idea.
What is Proper Noun?
100
Reason the Civil War was fought.
What is slavery?
100
Marks that enclose dialogue, titles, and other important words.
What are quotation marks?
100
Character that goes on a shopping spree.
Who is Mrs. Sommers?
100
Definition is: obey; agree to a request.
What is Comply?
200
A word that is used to express action of state being.
What is Verb?
200
Fought Mr. Covey because of mistreatment while working for him while being a slave.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
Refers to one or more nouns that may NOT be SPECIFIED
What are Indefinite Pronouns?
200
Amount of money that Mrs. Sommers found in her purse.
What are $15
200
Definition is: To make
What is render?
300
A word used to modify or describe an action.
What is Adverb?
300
Slave author that had to give up her children.
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
300
Sentence that introduces a topic and is part of the Thesis.
What is a topic sentence?
300
Items that Mrs. Sommers bought.
Stockings, shoes, gloves, magazines, lunch and theater ticket.
300
Definition is: ridiculous.
What is preposterous?
400
A word that is used in place of one or more nouns.
What is Pronoun?
400
Famous authors of the Realism period.
Who are Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass and Kate Chopin?
400
Words that have the same of similar meaning.
What are synonyms?
400
Stories that were focused on the truth and common man.
What are the characteristics of Realism?
400
Definition is: difficult, involving much hard work.
What is laborious?
500
Who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
500
Literary movement that was introduced during the Civil War period.
What is Realism?
500
Refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement.
What is a Reflexive Pronoun?
500
Author who had everyone die on her.
Who is Kate Chopin?
500
Definition is: showy but lacking in good taste.
What is gaudy?
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