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ELAR Subject 7
Subject Specific
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mood | the atmosphere or feeling created by the writer in a literary work or passage |
| multimodal | referring to a variety of ways in which information is presented (e.g., visually, auditorially; as in multimodal texts or multimodal delivery) |
| myths | a story often describing the adventures of beings with more than human powers that attempts to explain mysterious events |
| narrative | texts having the form of a story |
| nonlinear elements | literary element in which events are portrayed our of chronological order (e.g., flashbacks) |
| nonrestrictive phrases and clauses | an adjective clause that adds extra or nonessential information to a sentence |
| nouns | words or phrases that are the names of something (a person, place, or thing) and that are used in a sentence, especially as the subject or object of a verb or as the object of a preposition |
| objective | point of view based on the writer telling what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue |
| omission | when someone or something is erroneously excluded from consideration; sometimes called a false negative |
| omniscient | knowing everything; as in point of view |
| opinion | a belief based on experience and on certain facts but not amounting to sure knowledge |
| organizational pattern | structure an author uses in an informational text to build relationships among ideas and provide supporting details (e.g., cause and effect, chronological order) |
| outlining | an often numbered or lettered list of the important parts of something (as an essay) |
| overview | a short explanation or description |
| parallel plot | an additional plot line that develops along with the main narrative arc of a story |
| paraphrase | to restate a phrase or sentence that uses different words to express the same idea |
| parliamentary procedure | a rule that defines how a particular situation is to be handled or a particular outcome achieved in a legislature or deliberative body |
| part of speech | class of words (such as adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs) that are identified according to the kinds of ideas they express and the way they work in a sentence |
| passive voice | showing that the subject of a sentence is acted on or affected by the verb |
| personal narratives | expressive literary pieces written in first person that center on a particular event in the author's life and may contain vivid description as well as personal commentary and observations |
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