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22 Cards in this Set
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analogy
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___ is to ___ as ___ is to ____
subject made clearer or more meaningful by developing an analogy |
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audience
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a group that listens or watches
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author’s purpose
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To inform
To persuade To entertain |
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cause/effect
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Cause and effect is the relationship between two things when one thing makes something else happen.
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Double negative
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A double negative occurs when two forms of negation are used in the same sentence.
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Drawing conclusions
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Making decisions by combining information
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encyclopedia
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a work that contains information on all subjects or one that covers a certain subject thoroughly usually with articles arranged alphabetically
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fable
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a short fictitious story; especially : one intended to teach a lesson and in which animals speak and act like human beings
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Genre
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a particular type or category of literary, musical, or artistic composition
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index
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an alphabetical list in a printed work that gives with each item listed the page number where it may be found
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Making inferences
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Reading all the clues and making your best guess
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myth
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a story often describing the adventures of superhuman beings that attempts to describe the origin of a people's customs or beliefs or to explain mysterious events (as the changing of the seasons)
2 : a person or thing that exists only in the imagination <the dragon is a myth> 3 : a popular belief that is false or unsupported |
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outline
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a : a brief summary or plan often in numbered divisions b : a brief treatment of a subject
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Possessive nouns
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express ownership or show a relationship
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proofread
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to read over and fix mistakes in
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punctuation
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the act, practice, or system of inserting punctuation marks in written matter to make the meaning clear and separate parts (as clauses or sentences)
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Sentence fragment
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occur when a sentence is missing a subject, verb, or main clause.
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Simple predicate
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the verb or verbs that link up with the subject.
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Simple subject
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Every subject is built around one noun or pronoun (or more) stripped of all the words that modify it
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thesaurus
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a book of words and their synonyms
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Title page (parts of)
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a page of a book bearing the title
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Verb tense
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gives information about when an action took place
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