Poetic Terms
Reading Comprehension Terms
Grammar Terms
Grammar Terms Cont.
100
An arrangement or certain number of lines in a part of a poem.
What is a Stanza?
100
The topic around which the entire story is organized.
What is Main Idea/Central Theme?
100
A verb form, usually preceded by to that is used as a noun.
What are Infinitives?
100
A mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact) as contingent as possible.
What is Subjective Mood?
200
Types of rules and poems you use in poetry.
What is Poetic Form
200
When you make a connection between clues the writer provides and what you already know.
What is Inferences?
200
A verb form ending in -ing that is used as a noun.
What are Gerunds?
200
Words that help create coherence by showing how related details are connected.
What are Transitional Words?
300
Feeling with regard to a person or a thing.
What is the Attitude?
300
Titles within the sections of a document.
What is a Subheading?
300
The word or words that a pronoun stands for.
What is Antecedents?
300
A sentence that has one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause.
What is Complex Sentence?
400
A fourteen line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter.
What is a Sonnet?
400
The viewpoint or position that the story is being looked at.
What is Point of View?
400
The voice a verb is in when it expresses an action done by its subject.
What is Active Voice?
500
A type of stanza or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.
What is a Quatrain?
500
Expressing over covering much in few words: brief in form but comprehensive in scope; succinct; terse.
What is Concise?
500
The voice a verb is in when it expresses an action done to its subject.
What is Passive Voice?
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