Grammar
Person, place, thing or idea
What is a noun?
compares two unlike things using LIKE or AS.
What is a simile?
To cite proof.
What is evidence?
When you read around a word to figure out what it means.
What is context clues?
the main action being performed by the subject.
What is a verb/predicate?
This word takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
word that imitates sound in literature.
What is onomatopoeia?
R.A.C.E
what is restate, answer, cite evidence, explain
The point in which the story is told.
What is Point of View?
this describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
This word describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
Giving human qualities to inanimate object.
What is personification?
The lesson the passage teaches.
What is Theme?
affixes attached to a word that can change the meaning.
What are prefixes and suffixes?
the audience knows what is going to happen before the characters do.
What is dramatic irony?
Unclear to who or what the pronoun is referring to.
What is a vague pronoun?
Comparing to unlike things NOT using LIKE or AS.
What is a metaphor?
The reason the author writes something.
What is Author's Purpose?
a character that does not change.
What is static character?
A statement that seems contradictory but is true.
What is a paradox?
any pronoun that ends with self or selves.
What is an intensive pronoun?
Repetition of the beginning sound.
What is alliteration?
A word or phrase that follows a noun, and explains the noun. It is set off by commas and is not necessary to the sentence.
What is an appositive phrase?
The good guy.
What is protagonist?
The word joins an independent clause to a dependent clause.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
This pronoun is the subject of the sentence.
What is a subject pronoun?
a pattern of rhymes at the end of a verse.
What is Rhyme Scheme?
The emotional response that a reader feels from a story.
What is mood?
a character that changes in the story.
What is dynamic character?
A word that is a verb and ends with ING but is the subject of the sentence.
What is a gerund?
This pronoun receives the action of the sentence.
What is an object pronoun?
a group of verses in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The author's attitude conveyed or expressed in a story.
What is Tone?
The bad guy.
What is antagonist?
This phrase means don't complain about a gift
Beggars can't be chooser or don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Joins words or phrases in a sentence.
What is a conjunction?
a phrase that doesn't actually mean what it says.
What is an idiom?
When the opposite of what you expect to happen actually happens.
What is situational irony?
the main problem the character faces.
What is conflict?
A reference to a well known person or event.
What is allusion?
F.A.N.B.O.Y.S
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Coordinating conjunctions
a phrase that gives advice.
What is a proverb?
The position taken by the writer.
What is claim?
The plot line.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
a short, fictional story for kids that teaches a moral lesson, often featuring anthropomorphic animals—animals that act, talk, and feel like humans
What is a fable?
The noun the pronoun is referring to.
What is an antecedent?
the opposite of something.
What is an antonym?
When what is said is the opposite of what is meant.
What is verbal irony?
another way of saying point of view.
What is perspective?
a traditional, ancient story often featuring gods, goddesses, or heroes that explains how the world works, natural phenomena (like thunder or seasons), or cultural traditions.
What is a myth?
this contains two independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence.
two words that mean the same or almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
A traditional story often regarded as history but not authenticated.
What is legend?
phrases function within a sentence as adjectives or adverbs to modify nouns or verbs, adding information about time, place, direction.
What is a prepositional phrase?
when you get the information straight from the person that was there.
What is primary source?