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Grammar Quiz 11
Grammar Assessment over chapter 11: The Writer's Voice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstract subject | A subject that represents an idea, feeling, or quality rather than a specific person, place, or object |
| Agent | The initiator of the action in the sentence. Is usually the subject in an active sentence: "John" groomed the dog. |
| Attributor | A metadiscourse signal that refers to the source of quoted information" "according to, cited in." |
| Cliche | A worn-out word or phrase: hard as nails, cute as a bug's ear. |
| Code gloss | A metadiscourse signal used to clarify the meaning of a word or phrase, often a parenthetical comment. |
| Connotation | The idea or feeling that a word evokes; the overtone carried by a word or words. |
| Contraction | A two-word combination, in which letters are omitted. The omission is marked by an apostrophe. |
| Denotation | The primary or dictionary definition of a word. |
| Diction | The selection of words in of their meaning and their appropriateness for a specific audience and purpose. |
| First Person | Point of view referring to the writer or speaker (I, me, my.) |
| Hedge | One of the metadiscourse signals used to express uncertainty or a qualification: may, perhaps, under certain circumstances. |
| Idiom | A combination of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meaning of the individual words. |
| Metadiscourse | Certain signals, such as connectors and hedges, that communicate and clarify the writer's attitude or help the reader understand the direction and purpose |
| Metaphor | The nonliteral use of a word that allows the speaker or writer to attribute qualities of one thing to another for purposes of explanation or persuasion. |
| Nominalized verb | The process of producing a noun by adding derivational affixes to another word class (such as a verb.) ex: legalize---legalization. |
| Objective case | The role in the sentence of a noun phrase or pronoun when it functions as an object---direct object, indirect object object complement, or object of a preposition. |
| Particle | Words such as "in" and "out" that join verbs to create phrasal verbs. |
| Person | A feature of personal pronouns relating to point of view, the relationship of the writer or speaker to the reader or listener. |
| Personal pronoun | A pronoun referring to a specific person or thing: in the subjective case the personal pronouns are I, you, he, she, we, you, they, and it. |
| Personal voice | The unique identity created through choosing words and arranging them on the page, usually indicating familiarity with the topic and with the language used to discuss the topic. |
| Phrasal verb | A verb combined with a particle (a preposition-like word); the combination produces a unique meaning, often idiomatic: bring about, come across, make up. |
| Point of view | The relationship of the writer to the reader, as shown by the use of pronouns: first, second, or third person. |
| Possessive case | The inflected form of nouns (John's, the dog's) and pronouns (my, his, your, her, their, whose, etc.), usually indicating possession or ownership. |
| Second person | The person being addressed (you, your, yours.) |
| Simile | A comparison that uses "like" or "as": My love is "like a red rose." |
| Subjective case | The role in the sentence of a noun phrase or a pronoun when it functions as the subject of the sentence. Personal pronouns have distinctive inflected forms for this case: I, he, she, they, and so on. |
| Third person | The person or thing spoken about (he, she, it, they.) |
| Tone | The writer's attitude toward the reader and the text: serious, formal, tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic, casual, and so on. |
| Voice | The relationship of the subject to the verb OR the identity the writer creates through word choice and word arrangement. |
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