Grammar
The part of speech that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
The person or animal who takes part in the action of a story.
What is a character?
The opening section of an essay.
What is an introduction?
A group of lines in a poem, forming a unit.
What is a stanza?
A word opposite in meaning to another word.
What is an antonym?
The punctuation mark used to separate items in a list.
What is a comma?
The message or lesson of a story.
What is a theme?
The process of revising a written work for clarity and correctness.
What is editing?
The type of poem that uses a 5, 7, 5 syllable rule.
What is a Haiku?
The main part of a word that gives it its primary meaning.
What is a root?
This term is used when two independent clauses are joined by a coordinating conjunction.
The style of narration using first-person, second-person, or third-person.
What is point of view?
Words or phrases used to connect ideas within in a text acting as a bridge between sentences and paragraphs.
What are transitions?
A poem that does not adhere to any specific rhyme scheme or meter.
What is free verse?
A figure of speech in which human traits are given to nonliving objects or animals.
What is personification?
These are used to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, such as 'and' but', 'or'.
What is a conjunction?
An expression that doesn't mean exactly what the words say.
What is an idiom?
The technique of using descriptive language to create an image in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
This type of poem is 14 lines long and typically follows a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
The word or phrase that gives context and additional information to help define the meaning of a word.
What is context clue?
This term indicates ownership of something or someone.
An intentional exaggerated statement not meant to be literal.
What is a hyperbole?
The writing strategy involves comparing and contrasting two different things.
What is a Venn diagram?
The measured rhythm of a line of poetry, determined by the number of feet it contains.
What is meter?
This word means very small or petite.
What is minuscule?