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NOUNS
-common: nouns that do not name a specific person or thing. ex: dog, girl, mountain
-proper: nouns that name a specific person or thing. ex: Sarah, mount Everest
-abstract: a noun denoting an idea or quality.
ex: beauty, death
-concrete: things experienced with the five senses.
VERBS
-linking: a verb that links the subject of the sentence to a word or phrase in the predicate that renames or describes the subject. ex: the pitcher shrugged off the pitch
-transitive: a verb with two or more characteristics. It must have a direct object and second it must have a doable ability
-intransitive: a verb with only an action
MOOD/TONE
-mood: attitude expressed by the author towards the subject.
-tone: attitude expressed by the audience and attitude annotated by the subject
DICTION/CONNOTATION
-diction: the selection of words used to express a message correctly, clearly and effectively
-connotation: the unspoken hidden meaning a word conveys to give it a more emotional impact on the reader
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
-metaphor: a word that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect
-simile: a figure of speech comparing one thing to another thing to make a description of something more vivid
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