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Nordstrom vocab
Academic Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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theme | the big picture the author wants you to know, for ex. in Hatchet the theme is survival |
paraphrase | retelling a story in your own words |
excerpt | a small part of a bigger piece of work |
italics, italicized | slanted writing |
differ | how 2 things are different |
dialect | people use words differently in different parts of the country |
quotations | the EXACT words someone says, the quote is in between quotation marks |
emotion, emotional | feelings |
context clues | the sentences surrounding an unknown word that give you clues as to its meaning |
infer/inference | an educated guess based on what you know |
author's purpose | to inform, persuade, entertain, express feelings |
point of view | who is telling the story? 1st person? 3rd person? |
sensory language | description using the five senses |