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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. |
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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 |
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MOOD/TONE |
-mood: attitude expressed by the author towards the subject. -tone: attitude expressed by the audience and attitude annotated by the subject |
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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 |
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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 |
