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Compound nouns

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A noun consisting of more than one word

Example: social studies, thirty-three, schoolteacher

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Collective nouns

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Names a group of people or things

Examples: nerds, class

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Common noun

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Any person of thing

Example: pen, smiles

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Proper noun

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Particular person, place or thing and begins with capital letter
Example: Marissa, Paris

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Personal pronouns

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Refer to people and things. Divided into 3 categories:

  1. First person: referring to person talking
  2. Second person: referring to person bing spoken to
  3. Third person: referring to anyone or anything else
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Reflexive/intensive pronouns

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Formed by adding self or delve to certain personal pronouns
Reflexive: refers to the subject and functions as a compliment or an object or a preposition
Intensive: emphasizes a noun or another pronoun

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Interrogative pronoun

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Use to ask a question

  1. Which
  2. Who
  3. Whom
  4. Whose
  5. What
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Demonstrative pronoun

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Used to point out a specific person or thing

  1. This
  2. That
  3. These
  4. Those
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Indefinite pronoun

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Often doesn’t refer to a specific or definite person or thing
Doesn’t have a specific antecedent (like personal pronouns)
Example: Everybody will select another to help with everything

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Adjectives

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Modifies a noun or pronoun
Answer the following questions:
How much?
How many?
What kind?
Which?
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Proper adjective

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Formed from a proper noun

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Compound adjective

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A word composed of two of more words; sometimes these words a hyphenated

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Action verb

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Tells what action a subject is performing, had performed, or will perform.
Example: skated

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Linking verb

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Connects or links a subject to a noun or an adjective in the predicate
Example: is, are, being

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Helping verb

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Assists the main verb in a sentence. There can be more than one helping verb in a sentence.
Example: are

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Adverbs

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A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb
Answer the following questions:
Where?
When?
How?
To what extent?
Usually end in -ly
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Common preposition

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A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence
Examples: the man swam under the bridge

*“but” is a preposition ONLY when is can be replaced by the except

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Compound preposition

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Has the same function as a common preposition

Composed of two or more words

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Coordinating conjunctions

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Single connecting word

Examples: for, and, nor, but, or

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Correlative conjunctions

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Pairs of connecting words
The pairs are separated by one of the words the correlative conjunction is connecting
Examples: both......and
Neither.........nor
Wether.........or
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Interjection

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Word that expresses strong feeling of emotion

Usually comes at the beginning of the sentence

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Oxymoron

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Expression with contradictory words: a phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together for special effect, e.g. “wise fool” or “legal murder”

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Pun

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Play on words: a humorous use of words that involves a word of phrase that has more than one possible meaning.

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Paradox

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Statement that seems contradictory but that actually may be true

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Malapropism

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Unintentional use of wrong word: the misuse of a word through confusion with another word that sounds similar, especially when the effect is ridiculous

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Allusion

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References to well-know people, places, or events from myths or literature

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Chiasmus

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Inverted word order in phrase: a rhetorical construction in which the order of words in the second of two paired phrases is the reverse of the order in the first
Example: gray was the morn, all things were gray

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Foreshadow

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To be warned of: to indicate or suggest something, usually something unpleasant, that is going to happen

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Metaphor

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Implicit comparison: describing someone or something with a word or phrase that is not meant literally but by means of a vivid comparison expresses something about him, her, or it, e.g. saying that somebody is a snake

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Soliloquy

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A lengthy speech in which a character expresses his or her thought to the audience. He or she is usually alone on the stage

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Aside

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A brief remark by a character revealing thoughts or feelings to the audience. No one else on stage can hear these comments

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Monologue

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Like a soliloquy but the character is addressing another character not the audience. Literally means “one talking” (similar to dialogue meaning “two talking”)

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Characters

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The people or animals who take part in a literary work

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Round character

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Have many personality traits, like a real person

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Flat characters

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One-dimensional, embodying only a single trait. Shakespeare’s plays often include flat characters who provide comic relief

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Dramatic foil

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A character who highlights the traits of another character through contrast

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Tragic hero

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Main character of the story who has a flaw or weakness in his or her character which causes their downfall

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Jack

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Symbolizes the human love of dominance and power

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Piggy

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Symbolizes the science and rationality

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Ralph

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Symbolizes law, government, and civil society

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Simon

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Symbol of Jesus, he stands for the mystics, prophets, and priests of all religions who confront and reveal the darkest aspects of human nature.

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Roger

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Symbolizes mankind’s sadistic instincts, the suppressed desire to hurt others.

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The Lord of the flies

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Symbolizes the evil in all men’s souls

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Sam and Eric

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Symbolize totally civilized and socialized people

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Percival

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Symbolizes innocence

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Robert

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Plays the role of the pig

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