English final

Reading where you would find many examples of the authors opinion usually supported w facts

Research

Type of writing where you would find the author using propaganda techniques

Persuasive

Charts, graphs, glossaries, tables of content, pictures, and captions

Informational

Recipes, directions, information essential to completing a task

Practical/workplace

Collective nouns

A group of people or things

Pronoun

Speech substitutes for nouns

Proper noun

Specific person, place, or noun

Compound noun

A noun made up of more than one word

Antecedent

The noun that the pronoun renames

Abstract noun

No physical properties

Preposition

Related nouns to another part of the sentence

Conjunction

Connects words, phrases, clauses

Relative pronoun

Introduces a sentence (who, whom, that, which, where, whose, when)

Infer

An educated guess

Basing your prediction

What has happened, how the character behaves, how people behave in reality

Helping verbs

Is, was, have, has, be able to

Direct characterization

Author tells us what the character is like

Indirect characterization

When we read to learn what character is like

Irony

Opposite of what we think will happen

Allegory

Story, poem, or picture with a hidden meaning (symbol)

Protagonist

The main character

Antagonist

Obstacle or persons who work against the main character

Wrote Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare

Situational irony

A contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens

Biography

A persons life story written by someone else

Autobiography

A person writes their own story

Nonfiction

True story

Personal pronouns

He, she, it, us, we, I, you

Reflexive pronouns

Himself, herself, itself

Adverb

Describes verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs

Comma splice

A comma where there should be a period

Concrete

Something has physical properties and exists

Tone is writing

Authors attitude about the topic

Falling action of a short story reveals…

The conflict revealed

Time and place

Elements contribute to setting of story

Rising action

When characters are developed

Opinion

No facts support it

Simile

Compared two unlike things using like or as

Personification

Giving animals human qualities

When using apostrophe in writing

Possession, indicate letters have been omitted

Metaphor

Compares two unlike things without like or as

Sequential order

Writing that has steps; a sequence like a recipe

KWL is most beneficial… (*)

Informational (*chart)

Steps of writing process

Rewrite, rough draft, revise, edit, publish

Purpose of web

Expand our idea or topic and focus our topic

Revise

Stage of w.p where we look at paragraph and sentence structure

Edit

Stage of w.p where we look at spelling and punctuation errors

Prediction

Make a guess about what is going to happen next BASED on what we already read

Outline

Type of organization method that is most useful for putting our ideas in order before drafting

Publish

Stage of w.p where writing is supposed to be at it’s best

Reasonable argument

An opinion that is supported by strong evidence

Pre reading strategies

Look at cover, read title, pictures, table of contents

Topic selection, brainstorm, research, organize

Four things that make up the pre-writing process

Static

Character remains the same throughout story

Atmosphere

Mood created by the author through word and imagery

Jargon

Language specific to an occupation

Appositve

A word or phrase renames a nouns (set off w commas)

Foreshadow

Author hints of thing that will happen later in the story

Exposition of story we are introduced to

The main character and conflict

round

Character that has several qualities

Climax

Most exciting part of story

Suspense

Feeling created by the author that keeps the reader interested and wondering what will happen next

Symbol

Represents something else

Dialogue

A written conversation between two or more characters

Dialect

Language that is specific to a particular group of people, usually based on geographical regions

Dynamic

Character changes throughout story

External conflict

A conflict between a character and another character

Plot

Name for story line or action of story

Flashback

A literary device used to go into past to reveal important information

Pun

Word with multiple meanings; creates comic effect

Allusion

Applied or indirect reference to a noun or text

Flat

Character that exhibits only one personality trait

Conflict in story

Problem characters must overcome

Point of view

Vantage point form which the story is told

Alliteration

Same letter at beginning of multiple words in a row

Internal conflict

man vs. self

Literary text

Writing with purpose

Edgar Allen Poe

Master of short story