Got Nouns?
Sentence Types
Affixes
Literary Elements
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This type of noun names a general person, place, or thing.

What is a common noun?

100

What's a simple sentence?

A complete thought, IC

100

Hydro-

Water

100

What does this sentence mean? The classroom was a zoo. 

The class was noisy/chaotic

100
He carefully walked in the hallway? What part of speech is carefully?

Adverb

200
This type of noun names a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
200

What is a dependent clause?

Dependent clauses cannot stand alone as a sentence, but they can be added to an independent clause to form a complex sentence. Not a complete sentence.

200

Anti-

Against

200

What type of figurative language is "The sun smiled down on us."

Personification 

200

What is tone?

the attitude or feeling that the author conveys

300
This type of noun names an idea or concept.
What is an abstract noun?
300

What is the equation for a complex sentence?

DC + IC

300

Dis-

Reversal of an action or state.

300

Give me an example of a symbol and what that symbol means.

red=anger

four leaf clover= good luck

300

What is indirect characterization?

the process of describing a character through that character's thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue.

400
List three examples of collective nouns

team, family, crowd, herd... ect

400

What is the equation for a compound sentence?

IC + IC

400

Mis-

used to show that something is done incorrectly or badly.

400

What is the definition of Character vs Society?

A conflict between a character and the values, beliefs, and/or customs of a larger group

400

What is direct characterization?

when the author specifically reveals traits about the character in a direct, straightforward manner.

500

These are the two abstract nouns in this list of words: independent, independence, independently, creative, creativity, and creatively.

What are independence and creativity?

500

Coordinating conjunctions are used in compound sentences. Name all of the coordinating conjunctions. 

For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

500

Trans-

Across, Beyond, Through

500

What are the 5 parts of the plot diagram?

Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

500

What is situational irony?

When an event or outcome takes place that is the opposite of what was expected.