13681030538 | Prepositional phrase | A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun | 0 | |
13681046783 | Syntax | Set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences | 1 | |
13681051652 | Antithesis | Exact opposite | 2 | |
13681056842 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered too harsh | 3 | |
13681056843 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 4 | |
13681061555 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that is a direct address to an absent or imaginary person | 5 | |
13681067833 | Reminiscence | Memory or act of recalling the past | 6 | |
13681071319 | Diatribe | A bitter verbal attack | 7 | |
13681136621 | Noun | A person, place, thing, or idea | 8 | |
13681136622 | Compound noun | Single noun formed from two or more words | 9 | |
13681142915 | Common noun | A general name for a person, place, or thing | 10 | |
13681142916 | Proper noun | A specific person, place, thing, or idea | 11 | |
13681147987 | Concrete noun | A physical person, place or thing that can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted | 12 | |
13681147988 | Abstract noun | A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. | 13 | |
13681153898 | Pronoun | A word that takes the place of a noun | 14 | |
13681153899 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 15 | |
13681162574 | Personal pronoun | Refers to the one speaking, the one spoken to, or the one spoken about | 16 | |
13681166029 | Subjective pronoun | A personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence | 17 | |
13681176161 | Objective pronoun | A pronoun that is the object of the verb | 18 | |
13681176162 | Possessive pronoun | A pronoun used to indicate ownership. | 19 | |
13681180744 | Demonstrative pronoun | A pronoun that points out a person, place, thing, or idea (this, that, these, those) | 20 | |
13681184754 | Interrogative pronoun | A pronoun that asks a question (who, whom, whose, what, which) | 21 | |
13681184755 | Adverb | A word that describes a verb | 22 | |
13681190608 | Comparative adverbs | Compares two actions | 23 | |
13681190609 | Preposition | A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word | 24 | |
13681196947 | Verb | An action word | 25 | |
13681196948 | Helping verb | Helps the main verb express action or a state of being | 26 | |
13681201776 | Action verb | A verb that shows that something is being done, a word that shows action. | 27 | |
13681208489 | Linking verb | connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject (am, is, was, were) | 28 | |
13681212541 | Adjective | A word that describes a noun | 29 | |
13681217398 | Subject | Who or what the sentence is about | 30 | |
13681217399 | Predicate | The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject | 31 | |
13681222853 | Conjunctions | Words used to join words, phrases, or clauses (FANBOYS) | 32 | |
13681222854 | Interjections | A word that expresses emotion | 33 | |
13681570554 | Postposition | A grammatical word or morpheme that follows a noun phrase and indicates its relation in a clause or another noun phrase. | 34 | |
13731457517 | Epigraph | The use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme | 35 | |
13731462100 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 36 | |
13731464027 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 37 | |
13731465575 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 38 | |
13731466303 | Aphorism | A concise statement/wise observation of a truth or principle | 39 | |
13731476059 | Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 40 |
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