Language In Writing Flashcards
What is the predicate?
The action that is being done by the subject in the sentence.
Words that express the relationship in time or space between words in the sentence. In on around above between beside by before.
Prepositions
A part of a sentence that joins two words such as and or or.
Conjunction
The proper way to use a written system of language including proper spelling.
Orthography
The structure of words and their parts including morphemes. Study of word formation in a language including inflection, derivation and compound formations.
Morphology
Smallest unit of sound with meaning
Morpheme
A word or group of words that cannot be interpreted literally.
Idiom
A word that sounds like another word but has a different spelling or meaning
Homonym example accept and except
Makes a comparison using like or as.
Simile
Makes a comparison directly more powerful than and simile
Metaphor
What is personification?
Is the attribution of human characteristics to animals or objects.
The representation of sensory experience through langage.
Imagery
A person, place or thing invested with special meaning or significance
Symbol
Words that are spelled the same but are pronounced differently. Each conveys a different meaning example tear
Homographs
