Parts of Speech
What are the 8 Parts of Speech?
Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Conjunction, Interjection, Preposition, Adjective
What are the 5 Parts of a Sentence?
The 5 parts of a sentence are Subject, Verb, Capital Letter, End Mark (.?!), Complete Sense.
An antagonist is the villain of a story, or the character that impedes the progress of the protagonist towards his goal.
What is a Protagonist?
A protagonist is the hero (or anti-hero) in a story; the character whose quest forms the main idea of the plot.
What is a Noun? And what is a pronoun?
What is a noun? A noun names a person, place, thing, activity, or idea. (N)
What is a Pronoun? A pronoun replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.
What is an Adverb?
An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb, and answers these questions: How? When? Where? Why? How often? How much? To what extent? Under what condition?
What is the Subject of a Sentence?
The Subject of a sentence is that part of which we speak.
What is a Character?
A character is one of the people in a story.
What is meant by Climax?
The climax is the turning point of a story; the highest point of interest. The peak of tension.
What is an Adjective?
An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, qualifying, or limiting, and answers the following questions: What kind? How many? Which? Whose?
What is an Interjection?
An interjection is a word or phrase used as a strong expression of feeling or emotion.
What is the Predicate of a Sentence?
The Predicate of a sentence is that part which expresses what is being said about the subject.
What is the Setting?
The setting is the place and time in which the action of the story occurs.
What is Exposition?
Exposition is where the author introduces his characters and places them in a setting.
What are the Coordinating Conjunctions?
FANBOYS: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What is a Preposition? And what is the Object of the Preposition?
A preposition relates a noun or a pronoun to another word.
The Object of the Preposition is a noun or pronoun that follows a preposition and completes its meaning.
What are the 4 Sentence Purposes?
Declarative Sentence (Makes a Statement.) Interrogative Sentence (Asks a Question?),
Imperative Sentence (Gives a Command.)
Exclamatory Sentence (Expresses strong feeling!)
What is Plot?
A plot is the sequence of events in a story; the simple story line.
What is Conflict?
Conflict is the problem that drives the plot of a story forward toward its conclusion.
What are the Subordinating Conjunctions?
The subordinating conjunctions are when, while, where, as, since, if, although, whereas, unless, because (www.asia.wub)
What is a Phrase? And What is a Clause?
A Phrase is a group of words that does not contain both a subject and a verb, and may be used as a single part of speech.
A Clause is a group of words that does contain both a subject and a verb.
What are the 7 Sentence Patterns?
s-Vi
S-Vt-DO
S-Vl-PN
S-Vl-PA
S-Vt-IO-DO
S-Vt-DO-OCN
S-Vt-DO-OCA
What is Rising Action?
Rising action is a related series of events in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
What is dénouement?
The dénouement is the disentangling of the intricacies of the plot of a story. Also referred to as Falling Action.
Recite the Preposition Rap!
Preposition rap: About, above, across, after, against, along, amid, among around, at atop, before, behind. Below beneath beside between beyond but by concerning, down, during, except. For, from, in, inside, into, like, near of off on onto out outside, over, past, regarding, since, through, throughout. To, toward, under, underneath, until, up upon, with within, and without.