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vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| third person limited | a narrative point of view where an outside narrator uses he she or they to follow one characters |
| third person omniscient | a narrative perpective where an all- knowing non character narrator tells the story using third person pronouns he she and they |
| phrase | a group of two or more words that act togther as a single grammatical unit within a sentence |
| central theme | the primary overarching message or main point informational |
| central idea | the primary overarching message or main point informational |
| revision/revised | the act of reusing or altering |
| formal vs. informal tone | formal tone is objective professional and follows strict grammar rules while informal tone is conversational personal and relaxed |
| objective summary | a concise neutral overview of a text video or presentation that highlights the main idea |
| conclusion | the end or finish of an event or process |
| claim or counterclaim | the claim is the main argument a counter claim is the opposing view point |
| perspective | a point of view or a particular way of seeing thinking about and understanding |
| point of view | a person's perspective ,opinion,or stand point on something |
| primary purpose | the fundamental most important goal or reason for existence |
| relevant vs. irrelevant | relevant means information or items irrelevant means information is unrelated |
| primary or primarily | primary means first in importance |
| connotation | connotation is the feeling,idea or emotion |
| emphasis | force or intensity of expression that gives impressiveness |
| contribute | give something,especially money in order to help achieve or provide something |
| inference/infer/inferred | the logical process of reaching a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning rather than explict statements |
| omit/omission | omit means to leave out,exclude,overlook omission refers to the act of being excluded or a failure |
| analogy | a comparison or correspondence between two things |
| allision | a brief indirect reference to a person place thing or idea of historical cultural literary |
| antonym | a word that has the opposite meaning of another word |
| synonym | words or phrases with the same or nearly the same meaning in a language |
| interrogative | interrogative is used in a question |
| indicative | when you want to show that something is suggestive or serves as a sigh of something |
| subjunctive | relating. to or denoting a mood of verbs expressing what is imagined or wished or posside |
| imperative | absolutely necessary or required unnavidable |
| conditional | subject to one or more conditions or requirements being met made or granted on certain time |
| stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a person |
| transition/transitional phrase | a word phrase or sentence that acts as a bridge between ideas,sentences or paragraphs |
| dialogue | conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book play or movie |
| ellopsis | an intentional omission of words in a quote a trailing thought |
| maintain focus | maintaining concentration on a specific task or goal while filtering out distractions |
| acknowledge an opposing viewpoint | perspective,opinions or arguments that directy |
| concise/precise | concise means expressing few words precise means being exact accurate |
| convey meaning | to communicate information /feelings transport physical objects |
| active vs. passive voice | active when someone performs a action passive is receives a action |