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Communication Arts Quarter 1 Review

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Conflict   A problem a character faces  
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Plot   The made-up series of events that describe how the conflict progresses  
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Setting   Where and when the story takes place  
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Mood   The overall feeling that the work conveys  
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Narrator   A speaker  
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Point of View   A certain perspective  
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First Person Point of View   A perspective of a character that is IN THE STORY  
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Third Person Point of View   The perspective of a narrator who IS NOT IN THE STORY  
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Theme   Central Message (Moral)  
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Style   A characteristic way of using language and expressing ideas.  
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Short Story   A brief work of fiction that focuses on one main plot around one conflict and can be read in one sitting  
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Novels   Longer works of fiction that contain plots, subplots, or related stories  
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Novellas   Works of fiction that are shorter than novels but longer than short stories  
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Historical Fiction   Literature that draws in part of real people and events to tell invented stories  
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Biographies   Tell the story of someones life and are told from the perspective of someone else  
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Autobiographies and Memoirs   Tell the story of the author's life and reflect the writer's thoughts and feelings about events.  
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Letters   Written forms of communication from one person to another.  
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Journal/Diary   Records of the daily events and the writers thoughts/feelings about them.  
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Essay/Artical   Brief written works about a specific topic. Their purpose might be to explain, to persuade, or to inform.  
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Informal Text   Written documents we come across everyday. For example, textbooks, applications, articles and instructions are informal texts.  
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Anticipate   To look forward to, expect  
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Modify   To change  
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Verify   To confirm  
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Preview   Looking at graphic representations and text structures such as transitions, photos, and organization.  
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Formulate   A prediction based on what you know about the topic.  
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Text Feature   Things that guide you through a section. Text features include all the components of a story or article that are not the main body of text. These include the table of contents, glossary, headings, bold words, pictures, and captions.  
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Common Noun   Names of anyone of a group of people, places, things or ideas.  
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Proper Noun   Names a specific person, place, thing or ideas.  
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Noun   Words that name people, places, things or ideas.  
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Concrete Noun   Names of people, places, or things that can be perceived with the five senses.  
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Abstract Noun   Names ideas, beliefs, qualities, or concepts- things that cannot be perceived by the senses.  
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Possessive Noun   Nouns used to show ownership or belonging,  
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Singular Possessive Noun   Nouns where you add an apostrophe and an 's'  
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Plural Possessive Noun   Nouns where you add an apostrophe after an 's'  
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Plural Noun   Refers to more than one person, place, thing, or idea.  
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Action Verb   A verb that indicates action  
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Linking Verb   A verb that connects the subject with a word that describes it or identifies the subject.  
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Principal Parts   Present (basic form), the present participle, the past and the past participle  
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Irregular Verbs   Verbs whose past and past participle forms do not follow a predictable form  
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Subject/Verb Agreement   Sentence must contain at least one subject and a verb.  
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Simple Sentence   A single independent clause  
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Verbs- Simple Tenses   Present, past and future tense  
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Verbs- Perfect Tenses   Describes an action that was or will be completed at a certain time.  
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Character Traits   Qualities, attitudes, and values that a character possesses, such as dependability.  
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Characterization   The way or ways in which a writer reveals a character.  
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Direct Characterization   The writer comes right out and tells you what a character is like  
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Indirect Characterization   The writer hints at what a character is like. Sharing the character's actions, presenting the characters thoughts/feelings.  
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Personal Pronoun   A pronoun used in place of a noun in a sentence. They change their form, or case, depending on how they function in a sentence.  
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Nominative Case Pronoun   Used when the pronoun is the subject of a verb. Ex: They  
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Objective Case Pronoun   Used when the pronoun is used as a direct of indirect object (i.e. it)  
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Possessive Case Pronoun   Used to show ownership (Ex: her)  
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Reflexive Pronoun   Reflects the action of the verb back to the subject. They always end in a -self or -selves  
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Antecedent   A word, phrase, or clause, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, in the same or in another sentence. In Jane lost a glove and she can't find it, Jane is the antecedent of she and glove is the antecedent of it.  
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