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42 Cards in this Set
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How to find out the meaning of words using context clues?
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- read the rest of the sentence closely
-plug in answers to see if it fits |
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How to identify the time and place of a story?
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- exposition for details
-time and place in the story -Technology and nature or environment in the story |
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Type of conflict:
- Man vs. man |
two people fighting
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- man vs society
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rober running from cops
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- man vs. nature
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cold in the artic
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- man vs. technology
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A man is trying to fugure how a printer works
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man vs himself
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thinking whether or not to eat that last cookie
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how to identify what type of conflict is occuring within a story?
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-look at the main characters
-and look at the problem that occurs |
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how to be able to infer the feelings and qualities of a character within a story?
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- Pay attention to actions
- underline emotion in passage |
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what is a simile?
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a simile compares to unlike things using like or as
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An example of a simile is?
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He is like a bull
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What is a metaphor?
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a metaphor compares to unlike things without using like or as.
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What is an example of metaphor?
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He is a bull
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what is an idom?
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Idioms are words, phrases, or expressions that cannot be taken literally
- they have 2 meanings a literal and figurative meanin |
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What is personification?
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Giving human qualities to non-human objects
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what is a bias?
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Opinion favoring one side or another
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how to identify a sentence/paragraph that has a bias?
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-read closely for opinions
- underline adjectives in a passage |
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what is third person limited?
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- first person pronouns inside of quotes
-narrator is not a character in the story -knows only the thoughts and actions of one character in the story |
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what is third persom omicient?
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-First person pronoun inside of quotes
- narrator is not a character in the story -knows the feelings, actions, thoughts of all characters in the story |
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What is first person point of view?
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-First person pronouns outside of qoutes
- narrator is a character in the story |
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How do you identify the point of view in a text?
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- read closely
- look for first person pronouns inside or outside of qoutes -look to see if the narrator is a character in the story -look to see if the narrator knows all the feelings and actions of the characters in the story -Look to see if the narrator only knows the feelings and actions of one character |
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what is the definition of theme?
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big moral or lesson
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how to identify the theme of a story?
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character realizes or learns a lesson or a big moral in the story
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What are capitalization rules?
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Places, people, books, movies
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punctuation rules
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commas: add a pause between words to eliminate run- on sentences
Semicolon- joins two independent sentences Period- marks an end to a sentence so another sentence can start Colon-List items or things |
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spelling rules
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- sound out all words
- I before E except after C |
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How to check if pronoun agrees with antecedent?
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make sure if singular pronoun matches with verb
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active voice
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the subject performs the action: and the subject acts
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the boy hit the dog
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active
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the boy was hit by the dog
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passive
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the pencil was dropped
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passive
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apostrophe's porpouse
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shows ownership and possesion
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adveb definition
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a word that describes an adjective
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adjective definition
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a word that describes a pronoun and a noun
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she is happy
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happy is the adjective
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how to re-write a sentence so it sounds better?
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- read out loud
- check to see if any run- on sentences |
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how to identify important information?
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figure out purpose of them
- uses more adjectives - read out loud |
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how to select best transition for a sentence?
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shows similarity of difference
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how to best simplify a sentence?
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- read out loud
- check to see it doesn't repeat |
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a word that is at the beggginning of a root word?
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prefix
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meaning of vita
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life
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meaning of inter
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among or between
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