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39 Cards in this Set
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What is chronological order?
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time order
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What is the main idea?
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the most important point the author wants to make
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What is a clause?
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a group of words that contain a subject and a verb
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What is an antonym?
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a word that means the opposite of another word
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What is an appositive?
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a phrase or noun placed right by a noun or pronoun that gives more information about the noun.
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What are characters?
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the people, or sometimes animals, who act and speak in stories poems or plays
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What are character traits?
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-what a character's personality is like based on their actions
-who they are on the inside |
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How do you combine sentences?
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-read it out loud to make sure it makes sense
-take out extra words -use conjunctions to combine verbs, adjectives, or nouns - make sure the meaning of the sentence has not changed |
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What is a compound sentence?
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a sentence made up of two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, so)
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What is the main conflict?
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the main problem of a story moves all the events in a story.
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What are context clues?
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words in a sentence or paragraph that help you figure out the meaning of a word
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What are the 4 main coordinating conjunctions?
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and, but, or, so
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What is a dependent clause?
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a clause that does not express a complete sentence and cannot stand by itself as a sentence.
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What is a fact?
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an objective statement that can be proved
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What is figurative language?
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language that is used to create pictures or images in the reader's mind
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What are homographs?
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words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and sometimes different pronunciations
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What is imagery?
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language that creates vivid pictures and images in the reader's mind
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What is an independent clause?
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a group of words that has a noun and a verb and can stand by itself as a complete sentence
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What is an inference?
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an educated guess based on evidence from the text and what you already know
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What is a metaphor?
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when two things are compared using the verb "to be" and not the words "as" or "like"
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What is an opinion?
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a statement that cannot be proved, often expressing a feeling for something with adjectives
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What is personification?
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When human qualities are given to nonhuman things.
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What is a character's appearance?
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what a character looks like on the outside
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What is a plot?
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what happens in a story from the beginning to the end
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What is a prefix?
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a word part that is added before a word or root to change its meaning
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What is a prepositional phrase?
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a phrase that begins with a preposition
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What is the prepositional phrase song?
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About, above, across, against, among, around, at, after, Before, behind, beside, between, beyond, by, down, in, during.
Into, for, from, out, inside, Near, of, off, to, over. Past, throughout, through, toward, on, up, Without, until, with, under. Along, below, beneath, upon, Outside, like, ---Prepositions |
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What is a word root?
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a base from which a longer word is built
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What are sensory words?
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words that appeal to the senses of sight, taste, touch, hearing, or smell
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What is sequential order?
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step by step order; the order in which things should be done
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What is a dependent clause?
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a clause that does not express a complete idea, cannot stand by itself as a sentence, and contains a subordinating conjunction
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What is a suffix?
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a word part that is added after a word or root and changes its meaning and its part of speech
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What is symbolism?
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the use of objects or things to represent ideas
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What is a synonym?
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a word that means the same or almost the same as another word
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What is a theme?
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the lesson you learn from a story that you can apply to your own life or the the world outside the story
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What are details?
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Facts, statements, or examples that help us understand the main idea.
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What is a central idea or main idea?
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the point the author most wants to express
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What is a quotation?
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something that a person says or writes that is repeated or used by someone else in another piece of writing or a speech.
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What are quotation marks?
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'' _____"
Two lines up in the sky that are used to show that someone is speaking or that the text between them is from someone else's writing. |
