Vocabulary Definitions
in a way that shows strong feeling or emotion
fervently
The ______ stray cat, limping and hungry, meowed softly outside our door in the rain.
pitiable
Name and describe two parts of speech.
Noun - person, place, thing, or idea.
Adjective - word that describes a noun.
Verb - action or state of being.
Adverb - word that describes a verb.
Conjunction - words that join ideas or sentences.
Preposition - words that begin phrases.
Pronoun - word that takes the place of a noun.
Article - word that introduces nouns.
Name three types of conflict in literature.
Character vs. character, nature, technology, self, the supernatural, society.
heavenly or mythical beings; angels
celestial
Thanks for the spring rain, the garden produced a ______ harvest of tomatoes and peppers.
bountiful
What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?
A clause is a group of words with a subject-verb combination and a phrase is a group of words without a subject-verb combination.
What is the purpose of foreshadowing?
What are three ways narrators create it?
To hint at future events in a story.
Narration, Setting, Dialogue.
stiff; strained and self-conscious
stilted
The embarrassed student apologized _______ for accidentally knocking over the teacher's coffee.
profusely
What kind of phrase (noun, verb, adjective, adverbial, participle, or absolute) is this?
"walked swiftly"
verb phrase
What are the three types of irony? Describe them.
Verbal - the intended meaning is something different than what is being said.
Situational - incongruity between what is expected and what really happens.
Dramatic - when the reader/viewer knows something that some of the characters don't.
a person who drifts from place to place and relies upon begging
vagrant
_______, the traffic safety instructor got a speeding ticket on his way to give a lecture about safe driving.
ironically
True or false: Relative clauses are coordinating clauses that specify or give information about a person or thing.
False - they are subordinating clauses.
A subordinating clause is a dependent clause while a coordinating clause is an independent clause.
What are the two types of dialogue found in literature? How are they different?
Internal - the character is talking to him/herself internally.
Outer - two or more characters are speaking.
an official representative
emissary
Much to her ____, Sarah discovered she had been mispronouncing her new friend's name for the past month.
chagrin
An adverbial clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb and functions as an adverb in a sentence. It answers questions such as _______?
how, when, where, why, or under what condition.
Name and describe three types of figurative language.
Simile - comparing two things using "like" or "as."
Metaphor - direct comparison.
Oxymoron - two words that appear contradictory.
Hyperbole - an extreme exaggeration.
Idiom - phrase that bears no literal meaning to the situation it is describing.
Personification - gives human-like characteristics to something not human.
Symbolism - used to express an abstract idea using an item or words.
Alliteration - repetition of the initial consonant sound.
Onomatopoeia - words that sound like what they are referring to.
Puns - create a play on words.