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Quarter1 Test Review
Communication Arts Quarter 1 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conflict | A problem a character faces |
| Plot | The made-up series of events that describe how the conflict progresses |
| Setting | Where and when the story takes place |
| Mood | The overall feeling that the work conveys |
| Narrator | A speaker |
| Point of View | A certain perspective |
| First Person Point of View | A perspective of a character that is IN THE STORY |
| Third Person Point of View | The perspective of a narrator who IS NOT IN THE STORY |
| Theme | Central Message (Moral) |
| Style | A characteristic way of using language and expressing ideas. |
| Short Story | A brief work of fiction that focuses on one main plot around one conflict and can be read in one sitting |
| Novels | Longer works of fiction that contain plots, subplots, or related stories |
| Novellas | Works of fiction that are shorter than novels but longer than short stories |
| Historical Fiction | Literature that draws in part of real people and events to tell invented stories |
| Biographies | Tell the story of someones life and are told from the perspective of someone else |
| Autobiographies and Memoirs | Tell the story of the author's life and reflect the writer's thoughts and feelings about events. |
| Letters | Written forms of communication from one person to another. |
| Journal/Diary | Records of the daily events and the writers thoughts/feelings about them. |
| Essay/Artical | Brief written works about a specific topic. Their purpose might be to explain, to persuade, or to inform. |
| Informal Text | Written documents we come across everyday. For example, textbooks, applications, articles and instructions are informal texts. |
| Anticipate | To look forward to, expect |
| Modify | To change |
| Verify | To confirm |
| Preview | Looking at graphic representations and text structures such as transitions, photos, and organization. |
| Formulate | A prediction based on what you know about the topic. |
| Text Feature | Things that guide you through a section. Text features include all the components of a story or article that are not the main body of text. These include the table of contents, glossary, headings, bold words, pictures, and captions. |
| Common Noun | Names of anyone of a group of people, places, things or ideas. |
| Proper Noun | Names a specific person, place, thing or ideas. |
| Noun | Words that name people, places, things or ideas. |
| Concrete Noun | Names of people, places, or things that can be perceived with the five senses. |
| Abstract Noun | Names ideas, beliefs, qualities, or concepts- things that cannot be perceived by the senses. |
| Possessive Noun | Nouns used to show ownership or belonging, |
| Singular Possessive Noun | Nouns where you add an apostrophe and an 's' |
| Plural Possessive Noun | Nouns where you add an apostrophe after an 's' |
| Plural Noun | Refers to more than one person, place, thing, or idea. |
| Action Verb | A verb that indicates action |
| Linking Verb | A verb that connects the subject with a word that describes it or identifies the subject. |
| Principal Parts | Present (basic form), the present participle, the past and the past participle |
| Irregular Verbs | Verbs whose past and past participle forms do not follow a predictable form |
| Subject/Verb Agreement | Sentence must contain at least one subject and a verb. |
| Simple Sentence | A single independent clause |
| Verbs- Simple Tenses | Present, past and future tense |
| Verbs- Perfect Tenses | Describes an action that was or will be completed at a certain time. |
| Character Traits | Qualities, attitudes, and values that a character possesses, such as dependability. |
| Characterization | The way or ways in which a writer reveals a character. |
| Direct Characterization | The writer comes right out and tells you what a character is like |
| Indirect Characterization | The writer hints at what a character is like. Sharing the character's actions, presenting the characters thoughts/feelings. |
| Personal Pronoun | A pronoun used in place of a noun in a sentence. They change their form, or case, depending on how they function in a sentence. |
| Nominative Case Pronoun | Used when the pronoun is the subject of a verb. Ex: They |
| Objective Case Pronoun | Used when the pronoun is used as a direct of indirect object (i.e. it) |
| Possessive Case Pronoun | Used to show ownership (Ex: her) |
| Reflexive Pronoun | Reflects the action of the verb back to the subject. They always end in a -self or -selves |
| Antecedent | A word, phrase, or clause, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, in the same or in another sentence. In Jane lost a glove and she can't find it, Jane is the antecedent of she and glove is the antecedent of it. |
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