Following are the 8 parts of speech and definition:
- Noun: a part of speech inflected for case, signifying a concrete or abstract entity
- Verb: a part of speech without case inflection, but inflected for tense, person and number, signifying an activity or process performed or undergone
- Participle: a part of speech sharing the features of the verb and the noun
- Interjection: a part of speech expressing emotion alone
- Pronoun: a part of speech substitutable for a noun and marked for person
- Preposition: a part of speech placed before other words in composition and in syntax
- Adverb: a part of speech without inflection, in modification of or in addition to a verb
- Conjunction: a part of speech binding together the discourse and filling gaps in its interpretation
Following are the figures of speech:
- Similie
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Transferred epithet
- Innuendo
- Oxymoron
I hope this learning is helpful to you. Next time we will move on some other concepts.
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