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Vocabulary 8

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Setting the time, place, and circumstances in which something occurs or develops the time and place of the action of a literacy, dramatic, or cinematic work the scenery used in a theatrical or fil production
Sight Word Vocabulary Words can be recognized efficiently Not: the goal is that eventually all words become sight words
Source a person, text, document, or primary reference work that provides information
Structure to plan, organize, or arrange the parts of something the way that something is arranged or organized
Style the writer's way of writing using various techniques the way in which a writer creates voices
Summarize to express or cover the main points briefly
Support information and evidence used to prove or corroborate something using information or evidence to show or seem to prove something to be true
Syllable any one of the parts into which a word is naturally divided when it is pronounced a unit of spoken language that consists of one or more vowel sounds alone or with one or more consonant sounds coming before or following
Syntax the information of sentences and the associated grammatical rules
synthesize to make something by combining different things to combine things in order to make something new
technique a way of performing a skillful activity, or the skill needed to do it
Text Features the components of a story or article that are not the main body of text, including the table of contents, index, glossary, headings, bold words, sidebars, pictures and captions, and labelled diagrams
Text Structures structures used to organize information in a text Examples : chronology, comparison, and cause and effect
Theme the underlying message or big idea of a talk, book, film or other work
Tone the author or speaker's attitude toward a subject, evident through diction or the viewpoint of an author or speaker on a particular subject. Tone can be formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, pedantic, sad, cheerful, or any other attitude.
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