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Literary Terms
Definitions
Parts of Speech
Subjects and Verbs
Modifiers
100
Author's attitude
What is tone?
100
Criticizes
What is condemnatory?
100
Nouns of sentence: When his sister was brought to safety from the water, Chris cried.
What are sister, safety, water, and Chris?
100
Subject of the sentence: The rarely studied nautilus is an extremely odd mollusk.
What is nautilus?
100
Marine environments are sources of food for people.
What is marine?
200
Theme
What is the author's message?
200
Acting in a disrepectful manner
What is belligerant?
200
Identify the two modifiers: Today, the Congo peacock is a protected species.
What are Congo and protected?
200
Subject of the sentence: Because they have no teeth, foraging seahorses swallow fish larvae whole.
What is seahorses?
200
Steak is reserved for special meals.
What is special?
300
How a piece of literature makes you feel
What is mood?
300
Giving a speech to arouse people to action
What is inflammatory?
300
Identify the verb: Consuming small snakes and lizards, the Congo peacocks spend their days on the ground.
What is spend?
300
Verb in the sentence: A swimming seahorse moves by fanning its tiny fin.
What is moves?
300
The scarlet ibis escaped into the sky.
What is scarlet?
400
Creating pictures with words
What is imagery?
400
Arrogant
What is pompous?
400
Identify the preposition: The Congo peacock is a rare species that occupies a very confined area in central Africa.
What is "in?"
400
Verb in the sentence: Constant scraping against the rocks ruins the teeth of the sea urchin.
What is ruins?
400
Carmen does volunteer work at the Worcester County Humane Society.
What is volunteer?
500
Author's choice of words
What is diction?
500
Inquisitive
What is quizzacal?
500
Identify the verb: The barn owl is the most common species of owls.
What is "is?"
500
Verb in the sentence: A lobster has a hard, segmented shell and two large claws.
What is has?
500
He looked around and decided to grow cotton crops on his land.
What is cotton?