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a word produced by running 2 or more words together (is not -> isn’t)

concise often witty statement of wisdom or opinion, such as “Children should be seen and not heard” or “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”

the words a, an, and the which precede a noun or its modifier (there are definite and indefinite)

a “helping” verb that modifies a main verb, as in “Gain can win”, “Gail did win”, “Gail could have won”, usually of the form “can”, “have”, “is”, and “does”

verse written in iambic pentameter without rhyme, many of Shakespeare’s plays are written in this verse

amending a book by removing the passages and words deemed obscene or objectionable, comes from an 1818 edition of plays of William Shakespeare by Thomas ___, which was amended so that it could “be read aloud in a family”

grammatical category indicating nouns and pronounce are functioning as the subject of a sentence (nominative ___ (he)), object (objective ___ (him)), or possession (possessive ___ (his))

abbreviation for “compare”, instructs the reader to compare one thing to another

roundabout speech or writing (The driveway was not unlike that military training device known as an obstacle course” is a ___ for “The driveway resembled an obstacle course”)

a group of words in a sentence that contains a subject and predicate, dependent and independent

a form of adjective indicating a greater degree of the quality that the adjective describes (better is the ___ form of good, faster of fast, bluer of blue, more charming of charming)

a sentence that contains one main clause or independent clause and at least one subordinate clause or dependent clause (Although I am tired (subordinate clause), I want to go to the midnight movie (main clause))

a sentence that contains at lesat 2 independent clauses and at least 1 dependent clause (The Queen was called a readhead (independent clause), but no one knew her hair color for sure (ind) because she always wore a wig (dep))

a word that joins words or groups of words, 3 kinds: coordinating (and/but/or/not/yet/for/so), correlative (either/or/both/and/neither/nor), and subordinating (begin with a subordinate clause and join them to the rest of the sentence - e.g. “She didn’t learn the real reason UNTIL she left the valley”)

a pair of lines of verse that rhyme (‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse)

a sentence that makes a statement (he eats yogurt)

the word “the” that precedes names of specific items (the dog, the boats, the heavy anchor)

pronouns that point to specific things: this, that, these, and those (this is an apple, those are boys, take these to the clerk)

the basic dictionary meaning of a word (without its connotations) e.g. the ___ of the word modern is “belonging to recent times” althought the word may have different connotations

the solution or outcome of the plot of a play or novel (in the ___ of many tragedies, the main character dies)

a clause that does not stand alone as a sentence, it depends on another clause to complete its meaning, also known as subordinate clauses

a noun, pronoun, or group of words serving as the receiving end of an action, (“Tabitha hit THE BALL “ or “I will never understand WHY HE CAME HOME”)

A Latin expression for “cast of characters” (like at the beginning of a script), can also mean the participants in an event (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin were the ___ at the Yalta Conference)

an article in a newspaper expressing the opinion of the editor or publisher