Parts of speech
A person, place or thing.
What is a common noun?
Indicates a pause between parts of a sentence.
What is a comma?
Compares two things using the words "like or as".
What is a simile?
The repetition of a letter or sound at the beginning of words in a phrase.
What is alliteration?
Used when a character is speaking out loud.
What are quotation marks?
A specific person, place or thing. Used for brands, countries, people's names, etc.
What is a proper noun?
Indicates a question.
What is a question mark?
Compares two things WITHOUT using "like or as".
What is a metaphor?
A word representing a sound effect.
What is an onomatopoeia?
Used to refer to someone without the use of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
An action word.
What is a verb?
A punctuation mark indicating excitement or an exclamation.
What is an exclamation mark?
Giving human like characteristics to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
Creating a detailed image for the reader.
What is imagery?
An over used saying. ex: being "under the weather"
What is an idiom?
Describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
Indicates that information such as a list is to follow.
What is a colon?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
An indirect passing reference.
What is an allusion?
Expressing the most important facts of a text.
What is summarization?
Describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
Indicates a pause between two main clauses. More pronounced than a comma.
What is a semicolon?
Using a part of something to refer to the whole.
What is a synecdoche?
Used to indicate important information, or to emphasize a certain part of the text.
What is italics?
A word indication placement in relation to something else.
What is a preposition?