ABC STUDY GUIDE

A

• Action verbs are verbs that show an action or something that can be done.
• I kicked my opponent.

B

• Because Della cut her hair, she had no use for the combs.
• This is irony.

C

• Common nouns are nouns that are not names or a specific thing.
• The school was shut down.

D

• Demonstrative pronouns are pronouns that demonstrate the location of the anteccedent.
• THAT airplane is mine.

E

• Endings of stories could have suprise endings whitch use irony.
• In "The Gift of the Magi" the ending is a suprise ending.

F

• Foreshadowing is when there areclues in the book to what will happen next.
• It is in "Sonata for Harp and Bicycle," when Jason says he needs to call an R.A.F friend.
• That foreshadows a parachute.

G

• The giving of Gifts in "The Gift of the Magi" is irony.
• They both got gifts for each other that just became useless.

H

• Helping verbs are verbs that support another verb.
• I would have been killing my cat.

I

• Interrogative pronouns are pronouns that ask questions.
• WHAT is the name of that car.

J

• Joining words or words that join the subject and predicate are verbs.
• I AM good.
• You HUG the tree.

K

• KIng Solomon is in "The Gift of the Magi."
• He is portrayed to have the trait of jealousy.

L

• Locating the authors purpose
• The authors puropse is why the author wrote the story.

M

• Making inferences
• Infrences are guesses about characters that will help you understand the story.

N

• A noun is a word that describes a person place or thing.
• The SCHOOL is black.

O

• Omniscient narrators are narrators that know everything.
• They can tell what the carachters are thinking and what they have done.

P

• Pronouns are words that replace nouns and are usually shorter.
• HE flies HIS glider.

R

• Reflexive pronouns are pronouns that talk about their own anteceedent.
• I saw MYSELF.

S

• Singular nouns are nouns that describe one thing.
• That is a CHURCH.

T

• Theme is the overall message.
• The theme of walter mitty is to make your own decision.

V

• A verb is a word that links the subject and the predicate together.
• I KILL the grass.

W

• The washwoman was very dedicated to finishing the laundry.
• This was the theme of the story.

Y

• You is a pronoun and it is in the second person.