What are words like I, you, he, she, this, that, who called
100
personification
What is the term for giving human characteristics to non-human things?
100
allusion
What is a reference to a historical figure, place, or event?
100
interjections
Hey, oh, darn, hark
200
verb
What expresses action, occurrences, or states of being
200
nouns
What is are words such as: Capote, woman, Mississippi, Mrs. Unruh, Mrs. Harris, bat, ball, hat...called?
200
oxymoron
What is the term for the figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined?
200
irony
What is the contrast between what is said and what is meant? Also, when things turn out differently than expected...
200
adverbs
very, too, loudly, finally
300
pronoun
What is a word that replaces a noun and functions as a noun?
300
adjectives
What is the term for words used to modify nouns or pronouns?
300
non-fiction
What is the category for literature about real people, places, and events?
300
paradox
What is a seemingly contradictory statement that is still true?
300
adjectives
necessary, private, beautiful
400
prepositions
What is the term for words that relate nouns or pronouns to other words in a sentence? Examples: to, with, around, during...
400
adverbs
What is the name of the category of words used that will answers these questions? when, where, why, how, how much, in what wya
400
connotation
What is the term for the suggested meaning of a word beyond its dictionary definition?
400
analogy
What is a broad comparison between two basically different things called?
400
verbs
run, write, be, appear, seam
500
interjections
What is a the term for words that express feelings or command attention either alone or in a sentence.
500
subordinating conjunctions
What is introduces clauses that cannot stand by themselves as complete sentences and link them to the main clause? Words such as...although, because, if, whenever, in order...
500
figurative language
What a figure of speech or expression that is not literal but expresses some truth beyond the literal meaning?
500
point of view
What is the vantage point from which the writer presents the action in a work?
500
conjunctions - coordinating and correlative
and, but, so, for, or, nor, not only...also, either