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Quarter 1 Vocabulary
Daniel Pollack 1st Period 5/20/15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| analyze | discover or reveal something from detailed examination |
| audience | The people/listeners/spectators who you are writing or talking to; who your text is for |
| capitalize | making a letter upper-case in the start of a sentence or when there is a proper noun |
| central idea | the main idea something is talking about |
| character | any person in text or a play |
| cite | quote as evidence for something that you wrote about from a source that you got it from |
| comma | used to put a pause in a sentence, or used when listing items in text |
| conclusion | the end of a story; the wrap up of everything in a story |
| connotation/denotation | connotation: social-meaning denotation: dictionary definition |
| conventions | grammar; the correct way in which writing or talking is done or rules of speaking |
| coordinate adjectives | adjectives that appear in sequence with one another to modify the same noun |
| elaborate | involving many carefully arranged parts or details; something in detail |
| elicit | to draw out or trying to get information |
| evidence | proving something is correct or incorrect; or proof that something is true or false |
| formal style | a term for speech or writing marked by an impersonal, objective, and precise use of language; |
| inference | a conclusion or guess based off of evidence and reasoning |
| main idea | the overall idea of text or speech |
| objective | of, relating to, or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns used as the object of a transitive verb or preposition |
| parts of speech | a category a word is assigned in depending on its syntactic functions |
| plot | the events that make up a story, particularly: as they relate to one another in a pattern or in a sequence; as they relate to each other through cause and effect; how the reader vies the story; or simply by coincidence |
| prefix | an affix placed before a word, base or another prefix to modify a term's meaning as by making the term negative, signaling repetition, or by indicating support |
| pre-write | preparatory work for a piece of writing, as idea formulation, an outline, or research |
| punctuate | adding punctuation (".", "," "!", "?", etc.) to make a sentence complete or adding emphasis to a sentence |
| purpose | the reason for writing or doing something |
| reference | mentioning something or depending on something for information |
| reflect | to look back at; to learn from from past text or speech |
| relevant | closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand |
| revise | alter something to improve one's knowledge |
| rhyme | have or end with a sound that corresponds to another |
| role | the function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a particular situation |
| root | the basic cause, source, or origin of something |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| style | a manner of doing something |
| suffix | a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative |
| summary | a brief statement or account of the main points of something |
| supporting details | a paragraph contains facts, statements, examples-specifics which guide us to a full understanding of the main idea |
| technical meaning | the exact meaning of something |
| theme | the subject/setting/mood of a piece of writing |
| tone | the writers attitude |
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