Parts of speech
Has 4 main categories: concrete, abstract, common, or proper.
What is a noun?
Two words that share the same spelling but have different sounds and meanings.
What is a homograph?
The noun or pronoun that performs or controls the verb in a sentence.
Two words that share the same sound but have different meanings and spellings.
homophone
A comparison between two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
Renames the noun of a sentence to avoid repetition.
What is a pronoun.
A word that shows expression that is either followed by a comma or exclamation point.
What is an interjection?
What the subject does or what is being said about the subject or the verb phrase of a sentence.
What is a predicate?
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
Giving human characteristics to animals or objects.
What is personification?
Has 3 categories: action, linking, and helping
What is a verb?
A word or pair of words that combines words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
What is an independent clause (or simple sentence)?
Two words that share the same sound and spelling but have different meanings.
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
A word that answers the following questions: which one, what kind, how many or much.
What is an adjective?
A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
What is a adverb?
A part of a sentence that receives the action of a sentence.
A morpheme that is attached to the beginning or end of a stem or root word to create a new word.
What is an affix?
The repetition of consonants or its sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
A word that shows the positional relationship between two words.
What is a preposition?
A term used when 2 negative elements are used in a sentence.
What is a double negative?
A phrase that contains a preposition and its object.
What is a prepositional phrase?
The words or feelings associated with a word.
What is a connotation?
An expression that has a different meaning of the words stated and not to be taken literally.
What is an idiom?