PARTS of SPEECH
A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. This is the part of speech that substitutes for a "noun."
What is a PRONOUN?
Sample:
Zane asked, "where is my baseball gear from coach pitts?".
What does it mean to capitalize the first word in a direct quotation? What does it mean to capitalize a title with a name?
"To" plus a verb is NOT a prepositional phrase. It is an ____________________.
What is an INFINITIVE?
Action or Linking Verb: Betty tasted the chili.
What is ACTION?
"...life is made up of sob, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating." This is an example of ____________.
What is ALLITERATION?
The ________________ is the noun that a pronoun refers to.
What is the ANTECEDENT?
One of the most important rules of capitalization for any poem is __________________.
What does it mean to capitalize the first word in most lines of poetry?
Prepositional phrases will NOT be the ___________ or ______________ of the sentence.
What is the SUBJECT or VERB?
Action or Linking Verb:
The pasta tastes spicy.
What is LINKING?
The most important skill of literary analysis is _________________.
What is ANNOTATION?
Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, and been are called ________________________. There are ______ of these in all.
What are the HELPING VERBS? 23
Capitalize the first word , the ________ _________, and all __________ __________ words in any title.
What is "last word" and "important words" ?
A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a ____________ or pronoun, called ________________.
What is a NOUN called OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION?
The two auxiliary (helping) verbs used with the future tense are______________ and ____________.
What is WILL and SHALL?
What is it called when an author provides hints that predict later events in the story?
What is FORESHADOWING?
These are words that modify nouns.
What is an ADJECTIVE?
Capitalize a proper adjective but _______ the _______ it modifies unless the noun is part of a title.
What is "not" and the "noun" ?
Example: Labor Day weekend
A phrase does not contain a _____________ and ______________.
What is a SUBJECT and VERB?
The word good is used as an ____________________. The word well is used as an ______________.
What is an ADJECTIVE?
What is an ADVERB?
When you expect something to happen in a story but the opposite happens it is called _______________.
What is IRONY?
This part of speech answers when, where, how, or to what extent. The ______________ modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb.
What is an ADVERB?
Capitalize the _____________ but not the products.
What is BRAND NAME or NAME?
Example:
Purina dog food
What are the prepositional phrases in the following example: We are going to work on the yard in the morning before daylight.
What is ON THE YARD, IN THE MORNING, and BEFORE DAYLIGHT?
The adverbs that tell to what extent are: not, so, ...
What are the adverbs VERY, QUITE, RATHER, TOO, and SOMEWHAT?
A brief reference in a literary work to a familiar mythological, Biblical, or historical person, place, or thing is an ___________________. It requires us to have schema or ______________________.
What is an ALLUSION?
What is BACKGROUND INFORMATION?