Abstract Nouns
Grammar
Art
Literary Terms
Generations
100
This abstract noun is the state of not having a job.
What is unemployment?
100
This is the only definite article in the English language.
What is 'the'?
100
This means the feeling the work of art if trying to give, or the overall sentiment of it.
What is the mood?
100
This is like a metaphor, but it uses the words like or as.
What is a simile?
100
This generation got its name because older people thought the children would easily get hurt.
What is the Strawberry Generation?
200
This abstract noun means working hard through a difficult task or time.
What is perseverance?
200
We use this two-letter indefinite article before words that start with a vowel.
What is 'an'?
200
How the audience feels about a work of art, or the message they take away from it.
What is an interpretation?
200
After World War II, many people in many countries around the world gave birth to this generation.
Who are the Baby Boomers.
300
This abstract noun refers to the state of being young, or young people in general.
What is youth?
300
It starts with an 's'. It is art that often resembles what we see in dreams.
What is surrealism?
300
This word starts with an 'f'. It is when the author gives hints or clues about what will happen next in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
This generation feels squeezed by all the pressure they feel.
What is the Orange Generation?
400
People who get to vote for their government live in one of these.
What is a democracy?
400
These two relative pronouns are used for objects.
What are which and that?
400
This art style focuses on creating a feeling or memory instead of an accurate or realistic picture.
What is impressionism?
400
This is when we give objects personal qualities. For example, "The sun smiled on me".
What is personification?
400
Mr. Ovens, Ms. Thompson and Ms. Lister are all part of this generation.
What is the Millennial Generation?
500
This is the quality of being female, or the idea of something being female.
What is femininity?
500
Relative clauses come right after this thing.
What is the noun a relative clause modifies?
500
This style of art does not try to show reality, but instead use shapes, colours, forms and lines to send its message.
What is abstract art?
500
He is the writer who said that if a gun appears in a story, it must be used.
Who was Anton Chekov?
500
This is the definition of what a generation is.
What is a group of people who live in a similar time and place with similar values who experience similar events?
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