Grammar
Literature
Foreign Words
The Plot
Grammar
100
PRONOUN
What is a word that takes the place of a noun?
100
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
100
hoi polloi
The Masses
100
Climax
What is highest point of a story
100
Subject
Wilma ate the biscuit. (Wilma)
200
ANTECEDENT
The word that the pronoun refers to.
200
Alliteration
What is the repetition of a consonant sound.
200
bon voyage
Have a "nice trip."
200
Exposition
What is portion of the plot in which the characters and the setting are introduced.
200
Action Verb
Billy (tossed) him the key.
300
Action Verb
A word that shows action.
300
Allegory
What is a story in which the charcters are used a symbols?
300
status quo
The normal.
300
Rising Action
The building of tension occurs here.
300
Indirect Object
Al handed (Jean) the key.
400
Linking Verb
A word that shows the state of being or links the subject to a noun or adjective.
400
verbal irony
Larry, who weighs 500 pounds, is nick-named "Tiny."
400
tabla rosa
What is "Clean Slate."
400
Resolution
Where all of the loose ends are tied up.
400
Predicate Noun
What is the (answer)?
500
Direct Object
The word that receives the action of the verb.
500
Situational Irony
Olympic swimmer drowns in bath tub.
500
E pluribus unum
What means "out of many, one?"
500
Falling Action
The end of the story when the loose ends are not tied up.
500
Indepent Clause
What is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb, but does not express a complete thought.
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