| A | B |
|---|
| Adjective | -describes a noun |
| Adjective Phrase | -phrase describing a noun or pronoun |
| Adverb | -describes a verb |
| Adverb Phrase | -describes a verb |
| Antonym | -opposite meaning word |
| Autobiography | -an account of somebody's life written by that person |
| Biography | -story written about someone's life |
| Caption | -words that describe a picture |
| Charateristic | -a feature or quality |
| Cinquain | -a five-line poem |
| Colon | -punctuation starting a list (also time and salutation) |
| Common Noun | -a person, place or thing not requiring a capital |
| Comparative | -intermediate degree of comparison (er) |
| Compound Word | -two word joined to make one |
| Conjunction | -sentence joining words |
| Contraction | -a word formed by combining two words |
| Dash | -hyphen |
| Declarative Sentence | -makes a statement and ends with a period |
| Exclamation Mark | -punctuation showing expression |
| Exclamatory Sentence | -gives expression, ends with an exclamation point |
| Fact | -based in reality |
| Fiction | -made up story |
| Graphic Organized | -chart, table or graph that conveys information |
| Haiku | -three-line 17 syllable poem of Japanese origin |
| Homonym | -two words with the same sound different meaning |
| Imperative Sentence | -gives a command |
| Interrogative Sentence | -asks a question |
| Italics | -words slanted to the rights |
| Limerick | -a humorous verse of five lines |
| Metaphor | -a figure of speech that compares two different things |
| Myth | -a traditional story |
| Non-fiction | -factual information |
| Noun | -a person, place or thing |
| Opinion | -view, judgment |
| Parentheses | -brackets |
| Personification | -figure of speech giving human qualities to non-living objects |
| Plot | -what happens in a story |
| Prefix | -added to the front of a word |
| Pronoun | -a word that substitutes for a noun |
| Proper Noun | -a person place or thing requiring a capital |
| Quotation Marks | -punctuation showing speech |
| Root Word | -the basic part of a word |
| Salutation | -greetings or regards |
| Semi-colon | -punctuation used to join two ideas |
| Setting | -a period in time or place of a story |
| Shape Poem | -a poem in which the arrangement of the text forms a visual picture or idea |
| Simile | -a figure of speech that compares two different things, containing the word "like" or "as" |
| Stanza | -the poetic equivalent of a paragraph |
| Subordinate Clause | -a group of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence |
| Suffix | -added to the end of a word |
| Superlative | -highest degree of comparison (est) |
| Synonym | -meaning the same as another |
| Verb | -an action word |
