Freshman English Final Flashcards
Noun
Person place thing animal or idea
Adjective
Modifies a noun or pronoun
Verb
Expresses actions evens and states of being
Adverb
Modifies a verb adjective or adverb
Conjunction
Links words phrases and clauses
Prepositions
Links nouns and pronouns to other words in a sentence
Interjection
Words used to convey emotion
Pronoun
A word that takes the place of a noun or another pronoun
Metaphor
Direct comparison of unlike things
Simile
A comparison of unlike things using like or as
Pun
Play on words
Personification
Is giving human characteristics to non human things
Alliteration
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds with in words
Sonnet
Fourteen line lyric poem
Stanza
The formal division of lines in a poem
Imagery
a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so
Coordinating conjunctions
Am, are, is, was, were
“To be” verbs
Who, whose, whom, Which, that
Relative pronouns