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English Content Word

8th Grade English Content Words

TermDefinition
Action What happens in the story
Active Voice The subject does the action
Affix Adding letters to the beginning & end of a word
Alliteration Repetition of consonant sound
Allusion Indirect reference
Alternate Claim Additional statement of fact
Analogy Comparing two things
Analyze Break down & examine
Anecdote Summary of a story or event
Argument The main point
Audience The reader
Author The writer
Author's Purpose The reason the author wrote the story
Bibliographic Information Research
Biography A life story written by someone else
Capitalization Using uppercase letters
Cause/Effect Writing Writing that explains why something happened
Chapter The divisions or sections of a book
Chart A graph in a book
Citation Reference to research
Claim Make a statement
Classification Sort something
Clause a part of a sentence that has its own subject and verb
Climax The most intense part of the story
Closing Sentence The last sentence in a paragraph supporting the main idea.
Collaboration working together
Compare Examine how things are alike or different.
Contrast Examine how things are different.
Complete sentence A sentence that contains a subject and predicate.
Complex Sentence A sentence that contains a clause
Compound-complex sentence A sentence that has two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Compound sentence Sentence with one or more subject or predicate.
Concept idea
Concise Brief and to the point
Conclusion idea reached by reasoning or ending
Confirm To establish as true
Conflicting evidence Evidence that supports both sides of an argument
Consensus Agreement
Context clues hints the author gives to define a difficult or unusual word.
Contradiction Statements or ideas that are opposed to each other
Convey Communicate so that others understand
Credible believable
Created by: tiffanylove
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