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1st quarter vocab
extra credit english
Term | Definition |
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audience | the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting |
capitalization | means using capital, or upper-case, letters |
central idea | is the central, unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story. |
character | the person in a book play movie etc. |
cite | quote (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work. |
comma | a punctuation mark (,) indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list and to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral. |
conclusion | the wrap-up in a book play movie etc. |
connotation/denotation | connotation is the socil meaning of the word like she is having a cow , denotation is the dictionary meaning of the word |
elaborate | involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning. |
elict | evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions. |
conventions | correct grammar usage |
coordinate adjectives | are adjectives that appear in sequence with one another to modify the same noun |
evidence | clues and proof |
formal style | to write formally |
inference | a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. |
the main idea | is important information that tells more about the overall idea of a paragraph or section of a text. |
objective | of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. |
parts of speech | a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions. In English the main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. |
plot | the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence |
prefix | a group of letters placed before a root word which change the meaning |
pre-write | is a blanket term for a wide range of techniques to start thinking about your paper before you begin the formal process of writing a draft |
punctuate | occur at intervals throughout |
purpose | the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. |
reference | the action of mentioning or alluding to something. |
reflect | (of a surface or body) throw back (heat, light, or sound) without absorbing it. |
relevent | closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand. |
revise | the step in the writing process that comes before proofread and publishing |
rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. |
role | an actor's part in a play, movie, etc. |
root | basic cause, source, or origin of something. |
stanza | a paragraph practically |
style | a manner of doing something |
suffix | a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative, e.g., -ation, -fy, -ing, -itis. |
summery | summing a story etc. |
supporting details | extra details |
technical meaning | f or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles. Synonyms |
theame | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. |
tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. |