Grammar
This names a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
Poems are written in sections known as these, rather than paragraphs.
What are stanzas?
A word that takes the place of one or more nouns.
What is a pronoun?
When an author tells a true story about an important time in their life.
What is a memoir?
This tells whose perspective we are reading a story from.
What is point of view?
Pronoun case that shows ownership.
What is possessive case?
The insight or message about life that the story expresses.
What is a theme?
This names a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
Writing that is in complete sentences and paragraphs.
What is prose?
The subject's exact words.
What are direct quotations?
This names any class of people, places, or things.
What is a common noun?
Language that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
This noun shows ownership.
What is a possessive noun?
Author's use this to help describe how something smells, tastes, looks, feels, or sounds.
What is sensory language?
This is a conclusion reached based on evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
What is pronoun case?
The reason an author writes a text is to...
What is to persuade, inform, or entertain?
A pronoun that directs the action of a verb back on itself.
What is a reflexive pronoun?
An author tells the story of another person's life.
What is biographical writing/ a biography?
This pronoun simply emphasizes the noun or pronoun to which it refers.
What is an intensive pronoun?
Names the subject of the verb.
What is nominative/ subjunctive case?
The main message or idea expressed in a nonfiction text.
What is the central idea?
Names the direct object of a verb.
What is objective case?
When a writer tells a story in the order in which the events occurred.
What is chronological order?
Describes a noun or pronoun. Describes a verb or adjective.
What is an adjective? What is an adverb?