Phrases

Question 1

What’s a particle?

Answer 1

a word that looks like a preposition but is actually a verb.

Question 2

What does FANBOYS stand for?

Answer 2

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

Question 3

What’s an appositive phrase?

Answer 3

a noun or a noun phrase that renames another noun

Question 4

An appositive phrase can…

Answer 4

• be right next, before, or after to the modifying noun

- be in the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence

Question 5

What’s a participle phrase?

Answer 5

adjectives describing a noun or pro noun

Question 6

When a participle phrase introduces…

Answer 6

a main clause, separate the two sentences with a comma.

Question 7

What’s a preposition?

Answer 7

a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show time, place, or direction.

Question 8

What is a prepositional phrase also known as?

Answer 8

Participicale phrase

Question 9

What can modify nouns?

Answer 9

adjectives and appositive noun or noun phrase

Question 10

What can’t modify nouns?

Answer 10

VERBS

Question 11

Phrase can’t have…

Answer 11

a subject or a verb

Question 12

4 or more words….

Answer 12

needs a comma

Question 13

no commas if…

Answer 13

the info is essential

Question 14

add commas if…

Answer 14

the info is NOT essential

Question 15

essential appositives are also known as…

Answer 15

restrictive appositives

Question 16

non-essential appositives are also known as

Answer 16

nonrestrictive appositives

Question 17

Clause does have…

Answer 17

a subject and a verb

Question 18

What is a participle phrase made up of?

Answer 18

the participle, object, and modifiers.

Question 19

A participial phrase is a phrase that looks like a verb, but actually functions as…

Answer 19

an adjective

Question 20

What are the two kinds of participles?

Answer 20

Past and present.

Question 21

What does a past participle phrase end with?

Answer 21

-ed

Question 22

What does a present participle phrase end with?

Answer 22

-ing

Question 23

An appositive attaches…

Answer 23

to an independent clause

Question 24

What’s the rule for a prepositional phrase?

Answer 24

Anything you can do to a cloud.

Question 25

What's a tone?

Answer 25

the attitude of a story.

Question 26

Irony?

Answer 26

expression of what someone is saying by using humor effect.

Question 27

Metaphor?

Answer 27

a word or phrase is added to a thing to exaggerate the possibility

Question 28

Symbol

Answer 28

a shape or sign used to represent something

Question 29

Protagonist

Answer 29

The main character

Question 30

exposition

Answer 30

background of a narrative such as setting, aka introduction

Question 31

dialogue

Answer 31

conversation between characters

Question 32

allusion

Answer 32

an indirect reference; to mention something without actually mentioning it.

Question 33

imagery

Answer 33

using adjectives to describe something so others can picture it

Question 34

theme

Answer 34

an idea or lesson of a story

Question 35

conflict

Answer 35

the problem

Question 36

setting

Answer 36

where it takes place

Question 37

rising action

Answer 37

series of problems that leads to an ultimate problem

Question 38

climax

Answer 38

the highest time of problems

Question 39

simile

Answer 39

comparing one thing to another to make using like or as

Question 40

personification

Answer 40

giving something that's not a human the abilities of a human

Question 41

characterization

Answer 41

a description of features in something

Question 42

conflict

Answer 42

a problem in a story

Question 43

resolution

Answer 43

the solution to the problem

Question 44

1st person

Answer 44

using I, me, we, myself

Question 45

3rd person

Answer 45

he, she, her, they, his

Question 46

hyperbole

Answer 46

exaggeration in a sentence

Question 47

foreshadowing

Answer 47

giving hints about whats going to happen

Question 48

plot

Answer 48

the main things that happen in a story

Question 49

characters

Answer 49

the people in a story

Question 50

appositive has

Answer 50

a subject or a verb

Question 51

use a comma before a ....... when it joins ....

Answer 51

coordinating conjunction; two independent clauses.

Question 52

use a comma to separate the .... from the ....

Answer 52

introductory word; independent clause

Question 53

What should always be in an introductory sentence?

Answer 53

a word, phrases, and clauses

Question 54

Introductory words are

Answer 54

yes, no, meanwhile, well, please

Question 55

transitional words are

Answer 55

however, on the other hand, next, for example, consequently