Parts of Speech
This part of speech describes or modifies a noun.
What is "adjective"?
A sentence with one dependent clause and one independent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
Snook variety basketball team proved to be a ____________ opponent in Monday night's game.
This adjective describes an opponent or challenge that inspires fear or respect because of its great strength or difficulty.
What is formidable?
The character or force that opposes the protagonist.
Example: Miss Hinch
What is an antagonist?
An elegant or formal didactic letter.
What is an epistle?
“Wow,” “Ouch,” and “Hey” belong to this part of speech.
What is an interjection?
The grammatical error that occurs when two independent clauses are joined with only a comma
What is a comma splice?
Tybalt displayed ____________ rage towards Romeo after spotting him at the masquerade with Juliet.
Highly injurious or destructive in a subtle or gradual way; extremely harmful or deadly.
What is pernicious?
The internal conflict where the protagonist in "Under the Tunnel" struggles with their own emotions, decisions, or flaws.
What is man against himself?
"to speak well" or "to bless"
For example in 2 Corinthians 13:14: "May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all"
What is a benediction?
In the sentence “I like running,” the word “running” is this type of speech.
What is a noun?
This part of a sentence always contains a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
Farmers try to ____________ peanuts in Alabama; teachers try to ____________ knowledge in students.
To cause something (such as plants, ideas, or beliefs) to multiply or spread widely.
What is propagate?
This book's setting was a fictionalized Midwestern prairie, possibly Wisconsin's Cedar County, portraying struggling farms
What is "Under the Lion's Paw"?
Five poetic meters each containing unstressed and stressed sounds.
What is iambic pentameter?
These three little words — “in,” “on,” and “at” — are common examples of this part of speech.
What is a preposition?
An example of this type of sentence problem would be:
"I can't go home for Christmas the storm caused my flight to be canceled."
What is a fused sentence?
Students ________ faces after midterm exams showed their enthusiasm and joy that Christmas break was finally here.
an adjective meaning: Cheerful, merry, and lighthearted in mood or appearance.
What is jocund?
The author drops subtle hints or clues about what will happen later in the story.
For example, Romeo feeling a sense of foreboding before crashing Lord Capulet's party.
What is foreshadowing?
Fourteen lines of poetry written in iambic pentameter, organized in three stanzas and one couplet with abab, cdcd, efef, gg rhyme scheme
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
Answers key questions like
How? When? Where? Why? How often? How long? To what extent/degree? and Under what conditions?
What is an adverb?
This error happens when a dependent clause or phrase is punctuated as if it were a complete sentence (“Because I was tired.”).
What is a sentence fragment?
There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are ____________ to him.
So hateful or offensive that it inspires intense dislike
What is detestable?
The emotional “weather” or mood created by the setting, descriptions, and tone (e.g., eerie, cheerful, tense).
A sense of danger and doom in the icy air of Top Man created a tense feeling.
What is atmosphere?
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes"
is a clear example of this literary sound device.
What is "alliteration?"