CCGPS Literary Terms 1-55 (11-12 grades)

Question 1

Used to indicate a pause just as a comma does

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Dash

Question 2

Compositions written in the form of a play involving action and dialogue for presentation

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Drama

Question 3

Commas are used to set short questions that are attached to statements in order to prompt

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Comma To set off tag question

Question 4

A comma is used before or after the name of a person that the statement or question is directed

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Comma to set off a direct address

Question 5

Universally accepted rules in the correct spelling of words

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Conventional Spelling

Question 6

How a word or part of speech can or should be used can be disgreed upon

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Contested Usage

Question 7

Any one of a set of words along with a preceding comma to join two independent clauses

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Coordinating Conjunction

Question 8

A group of words including a subject and a predicate that cannot stand alone as a sentence

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Dependent Clause

Question 9

A word that describes a noun or pronoun

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adjective

Question 10

Varieties in speech generally based on time, place, education, social circumstances and culture

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Dialect

Question 11

dependent clause acts as an adverb in the sentence and begins with subodinating conjunction

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Adverbial clause

Question 12

Use more or less to compare to what degree 2 objects perform an action

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Comparative Adverb

Question 13

A word that describes a verb, adjective, or other adverb

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adverb

Question 14

A noun that does not name a specific person, place, or thing and is not cpaitalized

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common noun

Question 15

Pair of words that are used to join 2 words or group of words

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Correlative Conjunction

Question 16

Introductory material may be dependent clause, a person's name, or thing and is not capitalized

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comma with introductory clause

Question 17

A sentence that conveys the excitement of the remark being made.

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Exclamatory Sentence

Question 18

Used to speak of an event whose occurrence depends on another condition

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Conditional mood

Question 19

A dependent clause that comes at beginning of a sentence that does not modify correct subject

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Dangling Modifiers

Question 20

A sentence with at least 2 independent clauses and 1 dependent clause

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Compound Complex Sentence

Question 21

sentences that deal with the same subject.A semicolon used to connect to emphasize relationship

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closely related independent clauses

Question 22

The exact spoken words between two characters in a story or play.

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Dialogue

Question 23

A group of words consisting of at least one subject & at least one verb expresscomplete thought

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Complete Sentences

Question 24

2 independent clauses joined together with the correct punctuatiion

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Compound Sentence

Question 25

A word or words that are repeated exactly as they were spoken or written by the source

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Direct Speech Quotation

Question 26

used to introduce a longer list of items or a question that is more than four lines long

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colon to introduce a list/quotation

Question 27

Atype of adjective that modifies the noun to show which object is being written or spoken about

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Demonstrative

Question 28

An independent clause with a dependent clause coming before or after

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Complex Sentence

Question 29

A punctuation mark thatis used to signify ownership, to join contractions, etc.

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apostrophe

Question 30

The joining of 2 words with an apostrophe to signify the dropping of a letter or letters

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Contraction

Question 31

Writing and speaking that follows all the conventions of standard English grammar/usage

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Formal English

Question 32

A comma is used to separate 2 adjectives that modify the same noun

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comma to separate coordinate adjectives

Question 33

a phrase, usually a preositional phrase, that can modify a noun or pronoun

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adjectival phrase

Question 34

A part of speech used as connectors between words, clauses, sentences, or phrases

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Conjunction

Question 35

A type of adjective that includes articles and demonstratives to modify noun or noun phrase

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Determiner

Question 36

A part of speech used to identify a noun

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article

Question 37

Punctuation that signals the end of a sentence and signifies the type of sentence.

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End Punctuation

Question 38

same as a vague pronoun. The antecedent for the pronoun is not clear.

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Ambiguous Antecedent

Question 39

An apostrophe is used to form the possessive of a singular word by adding 's.

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Apostrophe to form frequently occurring possessives

Question 40

when the subject is acting, the verb is in this voice

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active voice

Question 41

A sample of writing that has a purpose or theme

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Document

Question 42

process and rules that determine whether or not a letter is used in uppercase or lowercase form

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Capitalization

Question 43

Rhetorically sound essays, articles, novels, poems, short stories, or plays.

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Complex Texts

Question 44

Represented by "..." They are used to used to show words from a quote have been omitted

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Ellipsis

Question 45

An adjective that tells the difference between 2 objects, people, ideas, or places

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Comparative Adjective

Question 46

An adverb that is used to join 2 independent clauses

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Conjunctive Adverb

Question 47

Anphrase, usually a prepositional phrase, that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb

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adverbial phrase

Question 48

Using as few words as necessary to convey point the writer/speaker is trying to convey

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Concisely

Question 49

A sound represented by the letters of the alphabet excluding the vowels

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Consonant Sound

Question 50

when writing, letters in the same word should be spaced closely together

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Appropriate spacing

Question 51

A sentence that statees a fact and usually ends in a period

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Declarative Sentence

Question 52

a singular noun that represents many members or parts as a whole

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collective noun

Question 53

A phrase that modifies an entire sentence and not just a word.

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Absolute phrase

Question 54

The universally agreed upon rules, methods, or processes

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convention

Question 55

a punctuation mark used to set off introductory material, connect independent clauses, ...

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comma

CCGPS Literary Terms 1-55 (11-12 grades)

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CCGPS Literary Terms 1-55 (11-12 grades)

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