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Quarter 3 vocabulary
Daniel Pollack 1st Period 5/20/15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| argument | a reason or set of reasons given to persuade others that something is right or wrong |
| citation | a quotation from a reference to a book, paper, or author especially in scholarly work |
| claim | state that something is the case |
| compare | to show similarities or differences between things |
| conditional mood | the mood depending on the condition in a story |
| contrast | showing how things are not alike |
| credible source | sources that are reliable and trustworthy for correct information |
| drama | exciting, serious, etc., series of events |
| explanatory | serving to explain something |
| informative | providing useful or interesting information |
| passive voice | when the subject is acted by the verb |
| plagiarism | when someone wrote text and someone else copies that text without their permission or voluntarily |
| poem | a piece of writing of both speech and song or telling a story |
| rellevant/irrelevant | relevant: closely connected or appropriate irrelevant: not connected with or relevant to something |
| soliloquy | talking to yourself when alone |
| sonnet | a poem of 14 lines |
| subjunctive mood | mood to form verbs that don't describe facts |
| techniques | the way of doing something |
| verb | action word |