Grammar and literary devices

Question 1

What is a noun?

What is a common noun, and a proper noun?

Answer 1

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).

Question 2

What is a verb?

Answer 2

An action word. A verb carries the idea of action or being in a sentence.

Used to describe actions, state, process or experience.

Question 3

What is an adjective ?

What are the two main purposes of nouns?

Answer 3

An adjective describes or modifies a noun.

1. Classifies and describes the qualities of nouns (strong boy, worst boy, deadest boy)
2. 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)

Question 4

What is an adverb ?

List 5 types of adverbs and give examples

Answer 4

Describes a verb, adjective or other adverbs.
Often (but not always) end in -ly. Can add intensity (completely strange, kind of terrible, really bad)

1. Adverbs of manner (sitting *quietly)
2. Adverbs of place (don’t run *over there)
3. Adverbs of frequency (don’t eat *before swimming)
4. Adverbs of time (Star Trek is *now old)
5. Adverbs of purpose (He bikes to school to reduce his carbon footprint)

Question 5

What is a pronoun

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

What is a conjunction ?

Answer 6

A conjunction is a word that connects two sentences together.

Question 7

What is a subject ?

Answer 7

The topic of a sentence.

Question 8

What is a predicate ?

Answer 8

The action word in a sentence.

Question 9

What is an Independent Clause ?

Answer 9

An Independent Clause is a Clause that can run on its own.

Question 10

What is a Dependent Clause ?

Answer 10

A Dependent Clause is a group of words that cannot run on their own.

Question 11

What is the main part of a sentence ?

Answer 11

The Structure.

Question 12

What is Alliteration

Answer 12

Alliteration is when the author repeats the same word multiple times.

Question 13

What is personification

Answer 13

Personification is where you describe a non-living thing a human action.

Question 14

What is a metaphor?

Answer 14

A metaphor is comparing one thing/object to another.

Question 15

What is a simile?

Answer 15

A simile is a comparison to the words like ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Question 16

What is an onomatopoeia?

Answer 16

A word that mimics the sound of an object.