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Unit 1 Vocabulary
A Deep Study of Character
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| bene | good, well |
| benevolent | well meaning and kind; charitable |
| mis | wrong |
| misrepresent | to give a false idea |
| mit | to send |
| transmit | to send something from one place to another |
| to | describes motion or directions |
| too | in addition, also |
| two | the number, a couple |
| characters | the people, animals, or personified objects in a fiction text |
| character traits | the qualities that make up a character's personality |
| mood | feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader |
| paraphrase | to restate in other words |
| plagiarism | taking credit fro someone else's writing or ideas |
| plot | problem of the story and the events that flow from it |
| setting | where and when the story takes place, and how that place feels |
| theme | the central message or messages of he text, the lesson or moral |
| complete sentence | a complete thought contains a subject and verb, begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark. |
| punctuation | the use of marks such as commas and periods in writing |
| conventions | spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar to make writing understandable |