What is a period, question mark, exclamation point?
100
a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
100
A group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent words.
What is an idiom?
200
The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages.
What is a verb?
200
comparing two things not using like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
A punctuation mark used after a word introducing a quotation, an explanation, an example, or a series
What is a colon?
200
a sentence composed of one independent clause and one subordinate clause
What is a complex sentence?
200
The part of speech that modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
300
The part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
What is an adverb?
300
giving human characteristics to non-living objects
What is personification?
300
A mark of punctuation used to connect independent clauses and indicating a closer relationship between the clauses than a period does.
What is a semicolon?
300
A sentence of two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by a conjunction or conjunctions.
What is compound sentence?
300
The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things.
What is a pronoun?
400
A word or phrase placed typically before a substantive and indicating the relation of that substantive to a verb, an adjective, or another substantive, as English at, by, with, from, and in regard to.
What is a preposition?
400
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
What is hyperbole?
400
An interrogative sentence, phrase, or gesture.
What is a question?
400
A clause that cannot stand alone as a full sentence and functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb within a sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
400
One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning.
What is a homophone?
500
a word that joins words or groups of words together
What is a conjunction?
500
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
the punctuation mark used after exclamations and vehement commands.
What is a exclamation point?
500
A sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
500
An affix, such as dis- in disbelieve, attached to the front of a word to produce a derivative word or an inflected form.