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Unit 4
Journey's Test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| compare | ways in which 2 or more things are alike |
| contrast | ways in which 2 or more things are different |
| point of view | an author's opinion or beliefs about a topic |
| main idea | the central idea the author is trying to convey about a topic |
| author's purpose | Author's reason for writing |
| geo | Earth |
| chron | time |
| hydro/hydra/hydr | water |
| graph | write |
| opt | eye |
| tele | distance |
| therm | heat |
| principal parts | one of the 4 basic verbs |
| present participle | principal verb part formed by adding -ing to the verb and used with the helping verb "to be" |
| past participle | principal verb part formed the same as the past tense of the verb and used with the helping verbs "to have" and "to be" |
| fact | statements that can be proven true |
| opinion | statements that express beliefs or feelings and cannot be proven true |
| figurative language | words that have meanings beyond their dictionary definitions |
| hyperbole | figurative language that makes an extreme exaggeration |
| personification | assigning human traits to non-human objects |
| text structure | the way ideas are organized in a text |
| word families | words that share the same word root or base |
| base word | a word to which affixes are added |
| affix | a word part that is attached to a root to form new words; a prefix or suffix |
| root | a word part coming from Greek or Latin that has meaning but cannot stand alone |
| demonstrative pronoun | refers to something specific (this, that, these) |
| indefinite pronoun | refers to something not definite (all, another, none) |
| interrogative pronoun | asks a question (who, what, whose) |
| reflexive pronoun | end in "-self" or "-selves" and refer back to the subject of the sentence |
| intensive pronoun | end in "-self" or "-selves" and appear after a noun or pronoun |
| story structure | the way the setting, plot, and characters are brought together to create a story |
| mood | the feelings or atmosphere created in a story by the author's words |
| setting | where and when the story takes place |
| infer | to guess based on evidence |
| predict | to tell in advance |
| suffixes | added to the end of a root word |
| adjective | modifies or describes nouns and pronouns |
| adverb | modifies or describes verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs |
| article | a, an, or the used to introduce nouns |
| demonstrative adjective | show where something is (this, that, these, those) "this book", "these sneakers" |
| indefinite article | a/an that refer to any person, place, or thing |
| proper adjective | refers to a specific person, place or thing; starts with a capital letter |
| bio | life |
| cosm | universe |
| cycl | circle |
| ethno | race |
| auto | self |
| photo | light |
| path | feeling |
| appositive | word or phrase that tells more about a noun |
| nonrestrictive elements | nonessential information set off by commas |
| parenthetical elements | expressions that explain a word or phrase and are set off by parenthesis or dashes |
| events | episodes in history that contain historical info |
| elaborate | to add details or give more information |
| prefix | attached to the beginning of a word |
| preposition | links nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words |
| object of the preposition | the noun that a preposition introduces |
| prepositional phrases | the preposition, its object, and related words |
| adjective phrase | prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun |
| adverb phrase | prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, adjective, or other verb |
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