Grammar and literary devices Flashcards
What is a noun?
What is a common noun, and a proper noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea (e.g: Dumbledore).
Thing, person, animal, quality (softness or love) idea (justice or peace) and behaviour (a smile).
Common nouns refer to people or places in general (non-specific)
Proper nouns refer to specific people or things (e.g. Bronte, Albert, God).
What is a verb?
An action word. A verb carries the idea of action or being in a sentence.
Used to describe actions, state, process or experience.
What is an adjective ?
What are the two main purposes of nouns?
An adjective describes or modifies a noun.
- Classifies and describes the qualities of nouns (strong boy, worst boy, deadest boy)
- Precedes and modifies nouns to make them general or specific and how much/many (a boy, the boy, one boy, many boys, a few boys, no boys)
What is an adverb ?
List 5 types of adverbs and give examples
Describes a verb, adjective or other adverbs.
Often (but not always) end in -ly. Can add intensity (completely strange, kind of terrible, really bad)
- Adverbs of manner (sitting *quietly)
- Adverbs of place (don’t run *over there)
- Adverbs of frequency (don’t eat *before swimming)
- Adverbs of time (Star Trek is *now old)
- Adverbs of purpose (He bikes to school to reduce his carbon footprint)
What is a pronoun
A noun that takes the place of a noun that has already been described, is already known or has already been mentioned. (e.g: her, me, you, she, they who, everybody, yourself, each other, I) or these buttons.
What is a conjunction ?
A conjunction is a word that connects two sentences together.
What is a subject ?
The topic of a sentence.
What is a predicate ?
The action word in a sentence.
What is an Independent Clause ?
An Independent Clause is a Clause that can run on its own.
What is a Dependent Clause ?
A Dependent Clause is a group of words that cannot run on their own.
What is the main part of a sentence ?
The Structure.
What is Alliteration
Alliteration is when the author repeats the same word multiple times.
What is personification
Personification is where you describe a non-living thing a human action.
What is a metaphor?
A metaphor is comparing one thing/object to another.
What is a simile?
A simile is a comparison to the words like ‘like’ or ‘as’.
What is an onomatopoeia?
A word that mimics the sound of an object.
