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English Extra Credit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| analyze | to study |
| audience | who will be reading your writing |
| capitilize | write in capital letters |
| central idea | the main idea of a passage |
| character | someone involved in a story or passage |
| cite | to tell where you got your information |
| comma | a brief pause |
| conclusion | ending |
| connotation-denotation | social and dictionary meanings |
| conventions | a way something is done |
| coordinate adjectives | put in-between words to change the order of words |
| elaborate | detailed |
| elicit | to draw out information |
| evidence | something that supports your ideas |
| formal style | complex/longer sentences are in use |
| inference | an educated guess |
| main idea | the central point of a piece of writing |
| objective | a goal |
| parts of speech | nouns, verbs, adjectives, so on |
| plot | everything that happens in a story, series of events |
| prefix | a couple of letters that are placed before the root word and changes the meaning of that word |
| pre write | to plan out your writing |
| punctuate | to put in punctuation such as periods and commas |
| purpose | why you are writing |
| reference | a place that you get information |
| reflect | to look back |
| relevant | closely connected to something |
| revise | to go over and improve |
| rhyme | two or more words with the same ending sound |
| role | who or what something plays |
| root | tho origin of the word |
| stanza | a piece of writing, usually in a poem or sonnet |
| style | how you write something |
| suffix | a couple of letters put at the end of a root word that change the meaning of that word |
| summary | to recap what happened |
| supporting details | details that support your claim |
| technical meaning | |
| theme | a subject of disscusion |
| tone | how the writer writes the paper or passage |
| Quarter 2 | Quarter 2 |
| alllusion | a commonly known place or event |
| analogy | a comparison between two things |
| antonym | opposites |
| argument | something you are fighting for |
| character | someone who plays a person in a story or a book |
| claim | what you are trying to argue about |
| clause | a group of words |
| complex sentece | has an independent clause and a dependent clause |
| compound sentence | has a dependent clause |
| compound-complex sentence | both compound and complex at the same time |
| connotation-denotation | dictionary and social meanings of words |
| context | words around another word that give you clues to what that word means |
| convention | following standard grammar rules for spelling, punctuation, etc. |
| counter claim | opposing claim |
| dangling modifier | Olivia made the mistake of waking her boisterous bulldog billy in high heels |
| denotation | dictionary meaning of a word |
| description | what something looks or is like |
| dialogue | talking |
| evidence | stuff that supports your claim |
| figurative language | goes beyond dictionary meaning to allow us to capture the scene, emotion, and the movement in words. examples would be metaphor, simile, and alliteration |
| logic | something that makes sense |
| narrative | a story told by a narrator |
| narrator | someone who tells a story |
| nuance | subtle difference in meaning |
| opposing claim | a claim that opposes your own |
| organization | an orderly approach to something |
| pacing | rate of speed |
| phrase | section of text |
| point of view | who is telling the story |
| sensory detail | a detail that appeals to your senses |
| sequence | to arrange in a particular order |
| simple sentence | a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate |
| structure | the supports of a story |
| synonym | a word that is alike another word |
| time shift | flashback |
| topic | what you are writing about |
| transition | first, second, last, etc. |
| QUARTER 3 | QUARTER 3 |
| argument | what you are fighting for |
| citation | to state where you got your information |
| claim | something that you want or need |
| compare | to find similar characteristics |
| conditional mood | a form of subjunctive mood |
| contrast | to find different characteristics |
| credibility | a source that is reliable |
| credible source | when a source can be trusted to get information off of |
| drama | a problem in a story |
| explanatory | something that explains itself |
| informative | an informational piece of text |
| passive voice | the verb is acting on its own |
| plagiarism | to copy anothers work |
| poem | a form of writing, usually with a rhyme scheme |
| relevant/irrelevant | connected/not connected to something |
| soliquy | talking to yourself |
| sonnet | a form of writing, usually with quatrains and couplets |
| subjunctive mood | usually found in complex sentences |
| techniques | ways to improve |
| verb | an action word |
Created by:
Jed Ross
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