Nouns
The sun is too bright to look at today." (Answer: sun)
Sun
caught
I have called Sam several times.
Several
The boy is too careless.
too
is giving an animal or object human-like characteristics, qualities, or feelings
Personification
What type of noun is "library"?
collective noun
Are measured
The homeless beggar hasn’t eaten in days.
homeless
The soldiers fought the war valiantly.
valiantly
It repeats consonant sounds at the begginging of words
Alliteration
What type of noun refers to specific people, places, or things and is always capitalized?
proper noun
Thomas Edison tried many filaments for his incandescent lamp.
Tried
foolish
We looked for the lost puppy everywhere.
everlywhere
is a word that imitates the sound that it describes
Onomatopoeia
Which of these is a common noun? a) Honda b) country c) ladybug d) insect
insect
Rising
Naomi won the second prize.
second
We do not know her.
not
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
Similes
"Teeth" is the plural of which singular noun?
tooth
The shoes were still lying where Ethan had left them
were
What colour shirt do you like?
what
Monica seldom visits here.
Seldom
a phrase or expression whose meaning is figurative and not deducible from the literal meanings of its individual words
Idioms