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Figurative Language
Punctuation
Grammar
Plurals and Singulars
Parts of Speech
100
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
This usually ends a sentence.
What is a period?
100
A sentence expressing strong emotion.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
100
The plural of cactus.
What are cacti?
100
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
200
A comparison of two unlike things that one is a dissimilar object or thing.
What is a metaphor?
200
A pause in a sentence.
What is a comma?
200
A phrase expressing strong emotion. Ends in an exclamation point.
What is an interjection?
200
The plural of deer.
What are deer?
200
Something that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
300
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
300
Allows writer to add additional information to a sentence, while keeping it separated.
What is a parentheses?
300
A group of words containing a subject and a predicate.
What is a clause?
300
The plural of dice.
What are die?
300
Something that replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
400
The repetition of the consonant sound in a series of words. ex... Coca-Cola
What is alliteration?
400
The formation of certain compound terms, and word division.
What is a hyphen?
400
Words formed from initials. (Example: SMS)
What is an acronym?
400
The singular version of bacteria.
What is bacterium?
400
Something that links a noun to another word.
What is a preposition?
500
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from the from their individual, literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
500
Used for alternative words, fractions, and ratios.
What is a slash?
500
The noun that refers to ideas, feelings, or qualities.
What is an abstract noun?
500
The plural of thesaurus.
What are thesauri?
500
Something that joins two sentences or words together.
What is a conjunction?