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The Writing Process
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Expository Writing | Writing that provides information and explains it |
| Direct Quotation | Words taken directly from the text and put into quotation marks " " |
| Paraphrase | Re-telling the text in your own words |
| Summary | Re-telling only the major points of the text and using your own words |
| Persuasive Writing | Writing that tries to convice the reader to share the writer's opinions |
| Narrative Writing | tells a story |
| Descriptive Writing | describes a person, place, thing, or event by using vivid details; often focuses the 5 sense |
| Noun | a person, place, thing, idea (heaven), or state of being (fear) |
| Pronoun | a word that takes the place of a noun (he, she, it) |
| Common Noun | does not need to be capitalized |
| Proper Noun | a name given to a SPECIFIC person, place, or thing; should be capitalized |
| Verb | the action in the sentence; tells what someone or something did |
| Adverb | describes a verb (Ex: quickly, slowly, suddenly) |
| Adjective | describes a noun |
| Conjuction | And, or, but, and so. Joins words, phrases, or sentences. |
| Preposition | Used to tell the position of one noun to another noun (in, of, above, around, for, between, around, below, under, out) |
| Interjection | a word or phrase used with an exclamation mark to express emotion (ex: Ugh! Stop! Help!) |
| Possessive Noun | shows ownership (ex: Jacob's house) |
| Quotation Marks | used to show the exact words of a speaker: The coach said, "Be a team player." |
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shaughnessy