Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
ELAR Subject 8
Subject Specific
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| personification | figurative language in which nonhuman things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities or abilities |
| persuading | convincing through reasoning or argument |
| persuasive | able or likely to convince |
| phrases | a group of two or more words that express a single idea but do not form a complete sentence |
| plagiarism | an act of copying the ideas or words of another person without giving credit to that person |
| plan | to organize ideas within a piece of writing prior to the drafting process |
| playwrights | people who write plays |
| plot | the main events of a story, play, or similar literary work presented as an interrelated sequence |
| poems | pieces of writing often having figurative language and lines that have rhythm and sometimes rhyme |
| poetry | pieces of writing often having figurative language and lines that have rhythm and sometimes rhyme |
| point of view | the narrator's position in relation to a story being told or to another literary text (e.g., omniscient vs. limited, subjective vs. objective) |
| predictions | strategy of foretelling what will happen or might happen in a text during reading |
| preface | a section at the beginning that introduces a book or a speech |
| prefixes | morphemes that precede a root or base words and that contribute to or modify the meaning of a word |
| prepositional phrases | a modifying phrase consisting of a preposition and its object |
| perpositions | a word or group of words that combines with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase that usually acts as an adverb, adjective, or noun |
| previewing | a strategy that readers use to recall prior knowledge and set a purpose fore reading |
| primary sources | original documents containing first-hand accounts or documentation of an event (e.g., diary, letter, speech) |
| problem/solution | when an author presents a problem that needs to be solves |
| pronoun antecedent agreement | a pronoun and the word to which it refers must agree in number (i.e., both are singular or both are plural) |
Created by:
wallj
Popular Academic Vocabulary sets