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Vocabulary List 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Author's Purpose | the reason the author is writing |
| Persuade | to convince the audience |
| Inform/Explain | to tell about something |
| Entertain | to capture the audience/tell a story |
| Express | to express feelings (usually in poetry) |
| Point of view | the way the author tells the story |
| 1st Person | told by one of the characters; "I", "me", "my" |
| 2nd Person | the narrator is speaking directly to the audience, "you" "your" |
| 3rd Person | told by an observer not a character; "he", "she", "they" or a characters name |
| Perspective | the way one looks at something |
| Apostrophe | used with nouns to show ownership or possession |
| Contraction | a word or phrase that has been shortened by dropping one or more letters |
| Singular Noun | names only one person, place or thing |
| Plural Noun | names more than one person, place or thing |
| Pronoun | words that take the place of a noun |
| Personal Pronoun | the person speaking or writing |
| Relative Pronoun | begins a subordinate clause and connect it to another idea in the same sentence (that, which, who, whom, whose) |
| Scrip/Script | write |
| Man | hand |
| Miss/Mitt | send |
| curfew | the time in the evening by which everyone had to be off the streets |
| raid | a police or army action to find people and take them into custody |
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