1. English Concepts
& Vocabulary
# 2

2. English Concepts
& Vocabulary
# 2

3. English Concepts & Vocabulary # 2
Parts of Speech
Writing Components
Plot Elements
Comprehension
Literary Terms
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4. The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases.
Parts of Speech for 100
The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases.
What is pronoun?
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5. The part of a sentence containing the verb.
Parts of Speech for 200
The part of a sentence containing the verb.
What is predicate?
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6. What is adjective? === Parts of Speech for 300
A word that tells which one, what kind, how many, or whose about the noun it modifies.
What is adjective?
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7. What is adverb? === Parts of Speech for 400
A word that tells how, when, where, or how much about the word it modifies.
What is adverb?
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8. === Parts of Speech for 500 What is preposition?
A word that shows a relationship of position between the object of the preposition and the word it modifies.
What is preposition?
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9. Writing Components for 100
A clause in a complex sentence that contains at least a subject and a verb and can stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence.
What is independent clause?
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10. Writing Components for 200
A clause that cannot stand alone as a full sentence
and functions as a noun, adjective,
or adverb within a sentence.
What is dependent clause?
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11. Writing Components for 300
The punctuation mark used to indicate a major division in a sentence where a more distinct separation is felt between clauses or items on a list than is indicated by a comma, as between the two clauses of a compound sentence.
What is semicolon? (;)
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12. Writing Components for 400
The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb .
What is active voice?
(The boy threw the ball.)
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13. Writing Components for 500
The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb.
What is passive voice?
(The ball was thrown by the boy.)
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14. The introduction of setting and characters.
Plot Elements for 100
The introduction of setting and characters.
What is exposition?
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15. What is inciting incident?
Plot Elements for 200
The event that introduces the central conflict.
What is inciting incident?
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16. The highest point of suspense in a story or novel.
Plot Elements for 300
The highest point of suspense in a story or novel.
What is climax?
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17. === Plot Elements for 400 What is crisis?
The point in the story or novel where something happens to decide the future course of events.
What is crisis?
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18. The point at which the central conflict ends.
Plot Elements for 500
The point at which the central conflict ends.
What is resolution?
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19. What is cause and effect?
Comprehension for 100
Noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
What is cause and effect?
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20. === Comprehension for 200 What is summary?
A comprehensive and usually brief abstract, restatement, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.
What is summary?
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21. A writer’s or speakers attitude toward the subject or the reader.
DAILY DOUBLE
A writer’s or speakers attitude toward the subject or the reader.
What is tone?
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22. What is the main idea? === Comprehension for 400
Important information that tells more about the overall idea of a paragraph or section of a text.
What is the main idea?
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23. The difference between appearance and reality in a piece of writing.
Comprehension for 500
The difference between appearance and reality in a piece of writing.
What is irony?
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24. A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
Literary Terms for 100
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
What is simile?
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25. A direct comparison between two unlike things.
Literary Terms for 200
A direct comparison between two unlike things.
What is metaphor?
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26. What is personification?
Literary Terms for 300
Describing something not human as if it were human.
What is personification?
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27. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of syllables.
Literary Terms for 400
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of syllables.
What is alliteration?
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28. Literary Terms for 500
The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end in different consonant sounds.
What is assonance?
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29. Any final material that finishes a story or novel.
FINAL JEOPARDY!
Any final material that finishes a story or novel.
What is dénouement?