Literary Devices and Parts of Speech Review

Flashcards covering literary devices, figurative language, and main parts of speech including concrete and abstract nouns based on lecture notes.

What is assonance?

The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.

What is a pun?

A play on words using multiple meanings or similar sounds.

What are synonyms?

Words that have the same or similar meanings.

What are antonyms?

Words that have opposite meanings.

What is an onomatopoeia?

A word that sounds like the word it describes.

What is an oxymoron?

Two words with contradictory meanings placed together.

What is an idiom?

A phrase whose meaning is different from the literal meaning.

What meaning does the idiom "It's raining cats and dogs!" convey?

It means raining heavy.

What is a metaphor?

A figure of speech that compares two things directly, without using "like" or "as".

What is personification?

Giving human characteristics to an object, animal, or nature.

What is hyperbole?

A deliberate exaggeration that isn't literal.

What is alliteration?

The repetition of the beginning consonant sound.

How many main parts of speech are there?

There are 8 main parts of speech.

What is a noun?

A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

What is a pronoun?

A word that takes the place of a noun so you don't have to repeat it.

What are the proper noun counterparts listed for the common nouns school, city, and girl?

Temescal Canyon for school, Los Angeles for city, and Bella for girl.

What is a concrete noun?

Something you can experience with one or more of your 5 senses (see, hear, smell, taste, touch).

What is an abstract noun?

An idea, feeling, quality, or concept that you cannot physically experience with your senses.