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quarter 1 vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |