ILA Exam
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- Declarative
- makes a statement (ends in a period)
- Noun clause
- A subordinate clause used as a noun
- Diamante
- Third and fifth lines need three -ing or -ed words about the noun
- Acknowledgements
- something done or given for something received
- Mood
- general emotional state of a particular character or speaker
- Bibliography
- a list of writings about a subject or author or by an author
- Appendix
- additional material attached at the end of a piece of writing
- Plot
- chain of events that makes up a story
- Adverb
- modifies or describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
- Simile
- a comparison using the words such as, like, as, then, resembles.
- Character traits
- a quality found in a person
- Exclamatory
- shows strong feeling (ends in exclamation point)
- Complete predicate
- All of the words in the predicate part of the sentence
- Linking verb
- connects a sentence with a noun or adjective in the predicate
- Simple subject
- The main person or thing in the subject part of the sentence
- Adjective clause
- A subordinate clause that modifies a noun or pronoun
- Action verb
- a word that describes what someone or something does
- Introduction
- the part of the book that leads up to and explains what will be found in the main part
- Complete subject
- All of the words in the subject part of the sentence
- Alliteration
- the repetion of a single consonant sound in words that are close together
- Simple predicate
- The main word or group of words in the predicate part of the sentence
- Setting
- the time and place of a story
- Adverbial clause
- A subordinate clause that often modifies the verb in the main clause of the sentence
- Adjective
- words that describe persons, places, or things. Answers the questions: What kind? How many? Which one?
- Newberry Award
- the most distquinished contribution to American literature for children
- Character
- person in a play or novle
- Interrogative
- asks a question (ends in a question mark)
- Predicate adjective
- An adjective that follows a linking verb and tells what the subject is like
- Preposition
- a word that relates a noun or a pronoun to show some other word in a sentence
- Imperative
- commands (ends in a period or exclamation point)