Grammar Basics
This part of speech describes an action, occurrence, or state of being.
What is a verb?
This device involves using "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things.
What is a simile?
This is a brief restatementof a text's main points in your own words.
What is a summary?
This is a structured group of sentences focused on a single idea, with supporting details.
What is a paragraph?
The is the pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language.
What is rhythm?
This type of noun refers to a specific person, place, or thing and is always capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence or line of poetry is known as this.
What is alliteration?
This is the point of view when the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is 3rd person POV?
'Usually' the first sentence of a paragraph; tells what the paragraph will be about.
What is the main idea? (or... what is a topic sentence?)
Words that have the same ending sound.
What are rhyming words?
This is the term for a word that modifies a noun or pronoun by describing it.
What is an adjective?
This term refers to the main message or underlying meaning of a literary work.
What is a theme?
Identifying the reasons an author writes something involves understanding this.
What is author's purpose?
In essay writing, this is the sentence or sentences that wrap up the piece and summarize the main points.
What is a conclusion?
The term used when a poet writes vivid descriptions related to the five senses.
What is imagery?
In a sentence, this is the word or group of words that contains a subject and a predicate. Can be independent or dependent.
What is a clause?
This device involves giving human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
This reading strategy involves making educated guesses about what will happen next.
What is predicting?
What is editing?
When a poet chooses to repeat sounds, words, or phrases.
What is repetition?
This type of conjunction is used to connect two independent clauses.
This s a contradiction between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
What is irony?
Coming to conclusions based on the evidence given and what we already know about the topic.
What is inferencing?
This style of essay requires investigating an idea, evaluating evidence, and establishing a position (claim).
What is an argumentative essay?
The use of extravagantly exaggerated figures of speech.
What is hyperbole?