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20 Cards in this Set
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Mood |
the feeling the reader gets from the text. The author purposely tries to get the reader to feel this way based on setting, imagery, and language. |
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Characterization |
the personality of a character based on/developed by STEAL (what a character says, thinks, effect on others, actions, looks). |
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Inference |
A conclusion or prediction you make based on what you already know combined with information/evidence from the text; an educated guess. |
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Figurative Language |
similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole |
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Claim |
an argument or point that a person is trying to get across. |
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Central Idea – the message/claim |
the writer’s idea about life or values/ a comment on society. Look for what is repeated to help you find the theme (informational text; not just one word). |
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Theme – the message/claim |
the writer’s idea about life or values/ a comment on society. Look for what is repeated to help you find the theme (literary text; universal, not just one word, a lesson learned). |
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Repetition |
when an author repeats in order to stress an important idea. |
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Allusion |
talking about or bringing up another text, event, or person without directly providing a description or stating the details. |
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Conflict |
a problem. These problems can be internal (man vs. self) or external (man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society). |
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Subjects |
who or what the sentence is about |
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Predicates |
the verb and what follows the verb in a sentence |
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Run-on Sentance |
a sentence that has two or more independent clauses (complete sentences) combined into only one sentence. (separate) |
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Fragment |
missing either a subject, predicate or both; needs more information to be a complete thought. |
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Complete Sentence |
has a subject, predicate, and expresses a complete thought (join using coordinating conjunctions. |
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Complex Sentence |
A sentence that has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause; uses subordinating conjunctions to join sentences. |
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Coordinating Conjunctions |
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so (FANBOYS) |
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Subordinating Conjunctions |
AAAWUBBIS (Refer to your notes – AAAWUBBIS and More!) |
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Commonly Confused Word's |
It's= it is its = pronoun, belongs to someone your = pronoun - belongs to someone you're = you are their = (belongs to) they’re = (they are) there = (a place) a lot = many break = to smash, split, or divide into parts brake = a device for slowing or stopping a vehicle or other moving mechanism |
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Commonly Confused Word's (2) |
quiet = without noise quite = completely or absolutely quit = to stop; cease to = used to indicate the destination of the subject or object of an action too = also two = more than one through = in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other threw = to hurl or project |
