Parts of Speech
a word or lexical item denoting a person, place, thing, idea, or quality. The most common part of speech; they are called naming words.
What is a Noun?
This is the comparison of two unlike things.
When trying to persuade someone, you will write in "this" voice. There is nothing passive about this.
What is Active Voice?
This author was from San Francisco, CA. She criticized small towns and the idea of following traditions blindly in her short story, "The Lottery."
Who is Shirley Jackson?
This good kid m.A.A.d.city rapper is from a California city made famous by N.W.A., called Compton. He is a Pulitzer Prize and multi-grammy winner. He currently is winning a rap battle or beef with a pop Canadian rapper.
Who is Kendrick Lamar(kDot)?
a modifier of a noun or pronoun such as (big, brave). They make the meaning of another word (noun) more precise.
What is an adjective?
This is the comparison of two unlike things, using the word “like” or “as”
What is a Simile?
There are four. Sometimes, I am simple, but you can make me complex. Depending on the type of clauses, you can make me compound or compound complex.
What is Sentence Structure?
This essay follows the adolescent years of a former child soldier from Sierra Leonne.
What is Unusual Normality?
This consists of interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing, and aggregation of content, ideas, interest, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks such as Facebook, Instagram, and X(formerly Twitter).
What is Social Media?
a syntactic connector; links words, phrases, or clauses (and, but). They connect words or group of words. Hey FANBOYS!
What are Conjunctions?
This uses the act of giving an animal or inanimate object human characteristics.
What is Personification?
a punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list and to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral.
What is a comma?
The essay "Unusual Normality" has a very interesting title. Normality is typically not unusual. Unusual things are not usually normal. This literary device attracts opposites, so to speak.
What is oxymoron?
This NBA team was up 2-0 on the defending champions, Denver Nuggets, but now find themselves tied 2-2. They have a young superstar who has been compared to the GOAT, Michael Jordan.
Who are the Minnesota Timberwolves?
a word denoting an action (walk), occurrence (happen), or state of being (be). Without "this,' a group of words cannot be a clause or sentence.
What is a verb?
This is a reference to a person, place, or item outside the context of the text. Now might be a good time to sit in my thinking chair.
What is an Allusion?
using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level. The usual way to join "this" with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as "and" or "or."
What is Parallel Structure?
William Shakespeare is an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is arguably the most influential writer in the English language. He authored several plays that are still studied today, such as "Romeo and Juliet," "Julius Caesar," "Hamlet," and "Macbeth." One interesting fact about Shakespeare is he was born and died on this date.
What is April 23rd?
She was the Attorney General of California from 2011-2017 and a U.S. Senator from California from 2017-2021. She is currently serving as the United States' first female Vice President.
Who is Kamala Harris?
a word that relates words to each other in a phrase or sentence and aids in syntactic context (in, of). They show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun with another word in the sentence.
What is a Preposition?
It is represented with the explanation of one sensory experience by describing another. I love to drink a mug of hot chocolate while listening to the sweet notes of a jazz concert, away from the bitter cold outside.
What is synaesthesia?
is a verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. The term verbal indicates that , like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being.
What is a Gerund
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
What is Sonnett 18?
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise is an example of this figurative language(literary device).
What is an idiom?