What is a sentence made from ONE independent clause (He plays basketball at the gym after school.)
100
Personification
What is when a writer describes an object as a person (The tree sighed in the afternoon breeze)
100
Redundancy
What is a word or phrase that repeats something else and is unnecessary
100
Connotation
What is an implied meaning that the author intends, which may differ from the literal or dictionary meaning of the word
100
Adverb (adverbial) phrase
What is Adverb (adverbial) phrase
200
Analogy
What is a comparison of two things that are somehow alike or different (Just like soldiers use weapons, writers use pens) This could also be written as SOLDIERS:WEAPONS::WRITERS:PENS and read as "Soldiers are to weapons as writers are to pens."
200
Adjective (adjectivial) phrase
What is a phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun in a sentence (The dog COVERED IN MUD looked pleased with himself.)
200
Dependent clause
What is a clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence because more information is needed; it DOES start with a subordinating conjunction (SINCE she is at the store)
200
Coordinating conjunction
What is the "FANBOY" conjunctions (FOR, AND, NOR, BUT, OR, YET, SO) used to create compound sentence when used with a comma
200
Root
What is the foundation of a word, usually from the Greek or Latin origins
300
Compound-complex sentence
What is a sentence made from TWO independent clauses and ONE dependent clause (He plays basketball in the gym after school, and he enjoys the exercise and comaraderie although it gives him less time for homework.)
300
Dangling modifier
What is a phrase or clause that does not have a word in the sentence to modify (it's missing!)
300
Subordinating conjunction
What is conjunctions that start dependent clauses (AFTER, ALTHOUGH, SINCE, UNLESS, etc.) used to create complex sentences
300
Denotation
What is the exact dictionary definition of the word
300
Clause
What is a group of words that contains a complete subject and verb, used to construct sentences; there are two types of clauses: independent and dependent (subordinate)
400
Phrase
What is a group of words that does not contain a complete subject and verb, used to modify and add details to clarify meaning
400
Compound sentence
What is a sentence made from TWO independent clauses joined together in one of two ways: 1. a comma and a coordinating conjunction or 2. a semicolon (He plays basketball in the gym after school, and he enjoys the exercise and camaraderie.)
400
Independent clause
What is a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, it does NOT start with a subordinating conjunction (She is at the store.)
400
the exact dictionary definition of the word
What is an indirect reference to something else, usually in literature ("He was a real scrooge" is an allusion to Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol.")
400
Complex sentence
What is a sentence made from ONE independent clause and ONE dependent clause (He enjoys the exercise and comaraderie when he plays basketball in the gym after school although it gives him less time for homework!)
500
Punctuation
What is what EVERY sentence needs, whether it be a comma, period, colon, exclamation mark, quotation mark, question mark, or combination of these
500
Coordinate adjectives
What is two adjectives in a row that modify a noun and usually need a comma between them (It was a bright, sunny day.)
500
Misplaced modifier
What is a word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies (describes)
500
Context
What is the words or phrases surrounding another word or phrase, helping to give clear meaning