This work refers to a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases.
What is a pronoun?
100
A word that means extraordinarily great in size, extent, or degree; gigantic; huge.
What is colossal?
100
Authors give clues to show or indicate beforehand.
What is foreshadowing?
200
This word functions as modifier of nouns.
What is an adjective?
200
A word which means easy and sprightly in manner or bearing.
What is jaunty?
200
A person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work.
What is the antagonist?
300
Words expressing emotion, distinguished in most languages by their use in grammatical isolation, as Hey! Oh! Ouch! Ugh!
What is an interjection?
300
To be strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
What is punctilious?
300
The time and place in which a story unfolds.
What is the setting?
400
A phrase or clause written as a sentence but lacking an element, as a subject or verb, that would enable it to function as an independent sentence in normative written English.
What is a sentence fragment?
400
This word often refers to one who is lacking in ideas or intelligence.
What is vacuous?
400
A stanza of two lines, usually rhyming.
What is a couplet?
500
A written sequence of two or more main clauses that are not separated by a period or semicolon or joined by a conjunction.
What is a run-on sentence?
500
A word used to describe a person who is haughtily disdainful or contemptuous of others.
What is supercilious?
500
In drama, a moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud.