Vocabulary
consists of words and expressions characteristic of a particular trade, profession, or pursuit
What is a Jargon?
What is a reference to someone or something that is known for history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch or culture?
What is a rhetorical question?
What is an questions that is asked for a dramatic effect not an answer?
What is a adjective clause?
What is a dependent or subordinating clause that modifies a noun or pronoun?
What is a predicate nominative?
What is it completes a copulative verb?
What is a Cliche?
What is figurative language used so often it has lots its freshness and clarity?
What is figurative language?
What is language that contains figures of speech?
What is Parallelism?
What is the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or of equal importance?
What is the clause in this sentence?
I saw the man who robbed the bank.
Clause: who robbed the bank
What is the predicative nominative in this sentence and what is it modifying?
The hike will be a risk.
PN: a risk
modifies the hike
What is connotation?
What is the implicit rather than explicit meaning of a word?
What is a simile and give and example of one?
What is a comparison of one thing to another and using the words like or as?
Ex. She has a heart like gold
What is Paradox?
What is a statement that appears self-contradictory or but reveals a kind of truth?
What is an Adverb clause?
What is a clause that functions as an adverb and the entire clause modifies the verb, adjective, and adverb?
What is a predicate adjective?
What is it allows a linking verb and modifies the subject of the linking verb?
What is Alliteration?
What is personification?
What is attributions of a personal that is nonhuman?
What is Antithesis?
What is a device that contrasts opposing ideas in a brief grammatically balanced statement to express a truth?
What is the clause in this sentence?
If Matt calls, please inform him that I will be late.
What is the predicate adjective in the sentence and what is it modifying?
That purse looks expensive.
PA: expensive
modifies the shoes
What is the difference between concrete and abstract?
What is concrete diction consists of specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions, abstract diction consists of language that denotes ideas, emotions, conditions or concepts that are intangible?
What is an onomatopoeia and give an example of one?
What is words whose pronunciation suggest meaning?
Ex. buzz, boom, bang
What is Repetition?
What is the use of the same word, phrase, or sound more than once for emphasis?
What is the difference between an essential and nonessential clause?
What is a essential clause is a relative clause that limits a general, ambiguous noun, a nonessential clause adds extra information to a sentence?
What is the difference between the predicates?
What is a pn completes the verb and a pa modifies the subject of the linking verb?