Parts of Speech Vocabulary
people, places, things, or ideas
What are nouns?
The beginning of a story; getting to know characters
What is exposition? includes setting and characters
What was the name of the disease that spread across Europe?
What is a the black death?
the author or narrator's attitude towards the subject
What is tone?
Comparing 2 things using the words like or as
What is Smilie?
action or movement words, words that describe a state of being, words that are used to link or help
What are verbs?
Things start to get more interesting in the story
What is rising action? or Problem?
these types of nouns must be capitalized
What are proper nouns?
a serious disagreement or argument
what is conflict?
"My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
This is an example of which literary device?
What is a metaphor? (Romeo compares his lips with pilgrims without the use of the word "like" or "as")
these connect words, phrases, or clauses in sentences
can be coordinating (basic), correlative (complex), or subordinating (complex)
(Hint: FANBOYS)
What are conjunctions?
the turning point of a story
What is the climax? or the plot?
A female giraffe has 62 chromosomes in each of her skin cells
How many chromosomes will be in the skin cells of her offspring?
What is a 62?
what is the fifth planet from the sun?
what is Jupiter?
the message an author wants you to learn reading their work
What is theme?
these types of words describe verbs, direction, location, and most of the time end in 'ly'
adverbs
Things start to take care of themselves; problems start to be solved
What is falling action? or attempts by characters to solve the problem?
A complete sentence is composed of these three parts
What are subject, verb, and a complete thought?
Language of the sense
Sight, Smell, Sound, Taste, Touch/Fell
what is Imagery?
the choice and use of correct word tense in speech and/or writing to make complete sentences that make sense to the listener or reader
What is grammar?
these words describe nouns
adjectives
The end of a story
What is the resolution?
Skyler mows lawns in the summer. The function f(x) is used to model the amount of money earned, where x is the number of lawns completely mowed. A reasonable domain for this function would be
What are Natural numbers?
the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
What is habitat
How the author wants the reader to feel about their writing
What are mood?