Predicative adjective is a traditional term for an adjective that typically comes after a linking verb rather than before a noun. Another word for a predicative adjective is a subject complement.

Coordinate adjectives are a series of two or more adjectives that independently modify a noun and are roughly equally important. As opposed to cumulative adjectives, coordinate adjectives can be connected by and, and the organization of the adjectives can be reversed. Coordinate adjectives are traditionally separated by commas.

A subject complement is a word or phrase that comes after a linking verb and explains or renames the subject of the sentence. Called a subjective complement. In conventional grammar, a subject complement is typically identified as either a predicate nominative or a predicate adjective.

Figurative language is language in which figures of speech (such as metaphors and metonyms) freely occur. This contrasts with literal speech or language. “If something happens literally,” says children’s book author Lemony Snicket in “The Bad Beginning,” “it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, it means

The process of acquiring skills in working with and knowledge about words including facts expressed in words.

The stage in Piaget’s theory of moral development in which children believe rules to be immutable and that they will thus be punished automatically for breaking them.

According to Erikson, the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.

Summarizing text by combining and connecting the ideas of several different selections through the use of students’ interpretation of the material.

A relational status created between the general or main idea of a passage and the overall text.

To summarize or restate something spoken or written in one’s own words. In doing so, one substitutes synonyms into the place of existing words, rearrange existing words, or both.