ELA Vocabulary

What PoS is a word or phrase that modifies or describes an adjective, verb, or adverb ?

The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject.

A word that governs a noun and expresses relationship with another element in the clause.

Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.

What refers to an idea or feeling a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning?

What is a sentence that contains one or more subordinate clauses called?

In ELA, the basic cause, source, foundation, or origin of something.

When a part represents the whole or vice-versa.

A group of words in a longer sentence that COULD stand alone as its own sentence.

What type of paper attempts to explain or describe something?

What PoS is a word or phrase that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun?

What is it when one clearly and potently conveys an idea while cutting out unnecessary words?

Naming something by way of a sound associated with it, like cuckoo, buzz, and sizzle.

When a verb is used as an adjective or as a noun (or to make compound verb forms), it is a ...

What word means "to have an effect upon or move emotionally"?

What PoS is a word placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences of equal rank?

Repeating the same words or passages to show that the ideas are equally important.

A tense that indicates an action has ended but not at a definitive time.

A long tale about the adventures of heroic or legendary figures, or, the history of a nation.

The fiction term that refers to the character who most clearly grows into a better human being.

What is it when a conjunction like "because" introduces a clause of lower rank or position?

One's typical manner of expressing oneself.

This tense indicates an action will have been performed by a particular time in the future.

A pronoun that does not refer to any particular person, amount, or thing.

A group of similarly-lengthed lines in a poem that form it's basic metrical unit.

When all the elements align to form a cohesive whole.

What refers to the literal or primary meaning of a word?

This tells you when something happened or existed.

A tense indicating an action completed prior to some specified or implied past point in time.

What's it called when the subject performs the verb's action?

When two things are seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

What's it called when a sentence has more than one subject or predicate?

The process of changing from one state or condition to another.

Comparing one thing with another thing of a different kind, to make a description more vivid.

What functions in pairs, working together to balance words, phrases, or clauses?

If one knows everything, one is ...

What word refers to a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person?

That additional or clarifying numbered bit of info at the bottom of a page.

The representation of objects, actions, situations & ideas in ways that appeal to our senses.

A sentence with two or more coordinating independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.

A word, letter, or number placed before something.

A change -- which is the result or consequence of an action (or other cause).

A word that clearly refers to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse.

What's it called when two or more verbs share the same subject and are joined by a conjunction?

When a word references a concept but isn't a part of it (ala "Hollywood" = the film industry).

A particular position or attitude from which a matter is viewed.

When a word or phrase is applied to an object or action even though it is not literally true.

What is the reference for a quote used as evidence for an argument or statement?

When two or more words that seem to be opposite to each other are related, even equated.

Metaphors, similes, personification, and hyperbole are examples of ... what?

In grammar, what word refers to "that which gives meaning to a pronoun"?

When two or more words refer to the same thing, what word references this parallelism?

What's it called when one uses exaggerated statements meant to generate an effect?

A morpheme added to the end of a word to form a derivative.