A | B |
harsh | unpleasant |
expression | look on your face |
shame | embarrasment |
paced | walk back and forth in the same spot |
halt | stop |
intruder | someone who breaks into somewhere |
conflict | problem |
humorously | in a funny way |
bitterly | in a harsh way |
declarative sentence | ends with a period |
interrogative sentence | ends with a question mark |
sentence fragment | part of a sentence - not a complete sentence |
complete predicate | all of the words in a sentence that tells what the subject is or does |
complete subject | all of the words in a sentence that tell who or what the sentence is about |
run-on sentence | two or more sentences stuck together without proper punctuation |
anxious | nervous |
deceive | lie or treat someone in a dishonest way |
advance | beforehand |
annoy | do something that bothers someone |
conflict | problem |
metaphor | comparing two things without like or as |
personification | giving an object the qualities of a person |
simile | comparing two things using like or as |
possessive pronoun | a pronoun that shows someone owns something (mine, my, hers, his) |
pronoun | a word that takes the place of a noun (I, she) |
interrogative pronoun | a pronoun that asks a question |
isolation | a place where something or someone is all alone |
pithy | short comment that is to the point |
conduct | way of behaving |
conceal | hide |
admired | liked |
obvious | easily seen |
appearance | looks |
demonstrated | shown |
concern | something that interests someone |
first-person point of view | narrator is in the story |
third person point of view | narrator is not in the story |
adjective | a word that describes a noun |
comparative adverb | word that describes a verb (action) that compares one thing to another - usually ends in ly |