Reading Class Flashcards For Mrs. Parr

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Narrative Writing

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Any kind of writing that tells a story

Example: Once upon a time, there once was a little pony named Tina, she always had fun in the farm where there was so many horses and chickens.

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Phrases

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put into a particular form of words

Example: High school

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Plagiarism

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the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

Example: 1.)Billy loves pigs and plays with them

2.)Billy loves pigs and plays with them a lot

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Point of view

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the narrator's position in relation to the story being told

Example Third person point of view: He is mad at her brother.

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Predicate adjective

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subject complement, a word or group of words that follows a linking verb or verb phrase such as is, am, were, smell, feel, taste, look, sound, have been, and did seem

Example: The vacation was very enjoyable

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Predicate nominative

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a word in the nominative case that completes a copulative verb

Example: Bob's idea for the assembly were the best

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Propaganda

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information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view

Example:

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References

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the action of mentioning or alluding to something

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Relevant

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closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand

Example: His observations, however, on the defects of the English university system, some of which have only very recently been removed, are acute and well worth pondering, however little relevant to his own case.

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Sentence structure

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the way a sentence is arranged, grammatically

Example: Karen baked cookies for dessert.

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Affix

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an additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning

Example: de-, non-, and re-

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Analogy

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a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification

Example: “Structure of an atom is like a solar system. Nucleus is the sun and electrons are the planets revolving around their sun.”

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Appositive

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of or relating to apposition

Example: During the dinner conversation, Clifford, the messiest eater at the table, spewed mashed potatoes like an erupting volcano.

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Characterization

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the act of characterizing or describing the individual quality of a person or thing.

Example: Characterizing a kind girl: She gently knelt down and stretched out her hand to help her friend return to her feet after her friend fell on the field.

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Clause

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a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.

Example: Garry should join the choir no matter what his friends say.

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Dialect

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a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group

Example: Jim: “We’s safe, Huck, we’s safe! Jump up and crack yo’ heels. Dat’s de good ole Cairo at las’, I jis knows it.”Huck: “I’ll take the canoe and go see, Jim. It mightn’t be, you know.”

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Literal

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taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory.

Example: 'It is time to feed the cats and dogs.'

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Mythology

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the study of myths

Example: Zeus, Hercules, Ares, and Aphrodite