Vocabulary
This word refers to the cultural background passed down through generations.
What is heritage?
“She is a teacher.” (teacher = ?)
What is a predicate nominative?
Phrase type: “In the morning, I jog.”
What is a prepositional phrase?
Comparison using “like,” “as,” or "than."
What is a simile?
Name two types of imagery.
What are visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory?
This word describes a group of people sharing a common culture or ancestry.
What is ethnic?
“My dad gave me advice.” (me = ?)
What is an indirect object?
Phrase type: “To read more books was her goal.”
What is an infinitive phrase?
“Peter Piper picked...” is an example.
What is alliteration?
“The wind whispered” shows this device.
What is personification?
This word means “to spread throughout,” often used for smells, feelings, or ideas.
What is permeate?
“They called the dish delicious.” (delicious = ?)
What is an object complement?
Phrase type: “Flying through the air, the kite danced.”
What is a participial phrase?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
A poem of 14 lines with a specific rhyme scheme and structure is called...
What is a sonnet?
A quality that helps someone recover quickly from difficulties.
What is resilience?
“We love poetry.” (poetry = ?)
What is a direct object?
Phrase type: “My friend, a skilled architectural engineer, designed and built that tower.”
What is an appositive phrase?
An exaggerated statement not meant literally.
What is hyperbole?
Lines that contain ten syllables each, divided into five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables are written in...
What is iambic pentameter?
The presence of different kinds of people or ideas in one place.
What is diversity?
“The soup smells delicious.” (delicious = ?)
What is a predicate adjective?
“Jogging every day helps reduce stress.”
What is a gerund phrase?
Sounds that imitate the object or action. (e.g., buzz, crackle)
What is onomatopoeia?
“The fire station burned down” shows...
What is irony?