Figurative Language 1
Figurative Language 2
Parts of Speech
Words
The Art of Language
100
Gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
What is Personification?
100
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is Alliteration?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a Noun?
100
Words with similar meanings
What is a Synonym?
100
Expressing an author’s attitude toward the subject
What is Tone?
200
Comparison of two basically unlike thing using the words like, or as.
What is a Simile?
200
Reference to a famous person, place, event or work of literature
What is an Allusion?
200
Word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
What is an Adjective?
200
Word part that appears at the beginning of a word or root
What is a Prefix?
200
A way of using words to express ideas that are not literally true to compare, emphasize or create an emotional effect.
What is figurative language?
300
Words that echo a sound from nature. (e.g., ring, meow, tinkle, buzz).
What is an Onomatopoeia?
300
Person, place, or object that stands for something beyond and greater than itself
What is a Symbol?
300
Part of speech that modifies a verb
What is an Adverb?
300
Words with opposite meanings
What is an Antonym?
300
An author's manner of writing or word choice that involves how something is said rather then what is said
What is Style?
400
Obvious and deliberate exaggeration
What is a Hyperbole?
400
Descriptions of taste, touch, sight, smell and sound
What are Sensory Details?
400
Group of words that has two main parts, a complete subject and complete predicate
What is a Clause?
400
A word part that came to English from an older language
What is a Root?
400
Language used to express exact meaning and to be concise
What is Precise Language?
500
Phrases or constructions with meaning different from the usual meaning of the words.
What is an Idiom?
500
Ideas and feelings associated with a word
What is Connotation?
500
Adjectives separated by a comma. (The slow, graceful sweep of their wings.)
What are Coordinate Adjectives?
500
Word part that appears at the end of a word or root
What is a Suffix?
500
Words that appeal to the senses to form pictures in the reader's mind
What is Imagery?
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