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What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun. It answers what kind, how much, how many or which one?
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What is a noun?
A person, place or thing.
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What is a sentence?
A group of words that states a complete thought.
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What is a stanza?
Lines of poetry grouped together.
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What is writer's workshop or the writing process?
The order in which we complete writing assignments is what we call this.
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What is a comparative adjective?
An adjective that is used to compare two things. Ex: the cat is smaller than the dog.
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What is a posessive noun?
A noun that shows ownership. Ex: The horse's mane was long and smoothe.
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What is a compound sentence?
Two or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a conjunction.
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What is a simile?
When you compare two things using the words "like" or "as".
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What is a thesaurus?
A book that gives words similar to the word you looked up. Shows synonyms.
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What is a superlative adjective?
An adjective that tells the most something could be. Example: He is the TALLEST in the group.
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What is a plural noun?
More than one person, place or thing is what type of noun?
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What is exclamation point?
An exclamatory sentence, meaning it shows strong emotion, uses this punctuation mark.
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What is alliteration?
The repetition of words with the same beginning sounds.
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What is a dictionary?
A book that gives definitions of words, as well as the pronunciation.
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What is an adverb?
A word that describes a verb. Example: She ran quickly.
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What is a pronoun?
A word that takes the place of a noun. Ex: She, me, them.
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What is a run-on sentence?
Two sentences that run together.
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What is onomatopoeia?
Words that sound like the objects or actions they refer to.
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What is an encyclopedia?
A book that gives elaborated information about a topic.
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What is a conjunction?
Connects words or groups of words. Example: and
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What is a Proper Noun?
A noun that name a specific person, place, thing or idea.
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What is a period?
A declarative sentence uses this punctuation mark.
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What is personification?
A figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities.
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What is voice, or writer's voice?
Writing from inside the story, thoughts and feelings come from writer's point of view.
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