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quarter 1 vocab.
Term | Definition |
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analyze | to examine something in detail |
audience | the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting. |
qapitalize | write or print a word or letters in capital letters. |
central idea | the dominant impression or the universal, generic truth found in the story |
character | a person in a story |
cite | to tell where you got the information |
comma | , |
conclusion | an educated guesse based on information |
conotation | the scocial meaning of a word |
denotation | the literal definition of a word |
conventions | pelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar |
coordinate adjectives | adjectives that appear in sequence with one another to modify the same noun. |
elaborate | detailed and complicated |
elicit | to draw forth, evoke |
evidence | facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. |
formal style | Complex – Longer sentences are likely to be more prevalent in formal writing. |
inference | a guesse based on other facts in a story |
main idea | the most important part of a story |
objective | the goal or real way with no fealinf |
parts of speech | English the main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. |
plot | the main parts of a story in a specific sequence |
prefix | the beginning part of a word |
prewrite | what you do before writing so you can get a sense of what you are going to write |
puntuate | to add puntuation to a word (s) |
purpose | the reason for which something is done or created |
reference | cite or source |
reflect | think deeply or carefully about |
relevant | having something to do with the story |
revise | to go back and fix what was wrong |
rhyme | two or more words with the same sounds |
role | a part the someone has to follow |
stanza | a part of a poem |
style | a way a writer writes |
suffix | the ending of a word |
summary | the overall meaning of a passage |
supporting details | details that suport your main idea |
technical meaning | the real or correct meaning |
theme | the life story that a story has |
tone | the general attitude of a writting |