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7th G Chapter 4-6 English Terms Flashcards

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Body Paragraph

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groups of sentences that provide more info about the main idea

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Comma

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a punctuation mark that’s used to indicate a pause in a sentence; a comma is also used to separate coordinate adjectives

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Complex Sentence

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a group of words that includes a main clause and one or more independent clauses

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Conclusion

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the end of a piece of writing that sums up the text’s main points and sometimes leaves the reader with something to think about

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Context Clue

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a word or phrase near an unknown word that helps the reader determinethe unknown word’s meaning

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Coordinate Adjectives

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two or more adjectives that are equal in importance; a comma is used to separate them

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Dependent Clause

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a group of words that can’t stand alone as a sentence, even if it has a subject and a verb

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Descriptive Details

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a piece of info that helps the reader to visualize aspects of a work

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Details

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facts, statistics, explanations, data, and other evidence that help to convey the main idea of a text

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Dialogue

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the word that characters speak in a text; conversation between characters

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Independent Clause

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a group of words that includes a subject and a predicate and can stand alone as a sentence; also called a main clause

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Introduction

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the beginning of a piece of writing that captures the reader’s attention and presents the text’s thesis statement or main idea

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Personal Narrative

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a type of writing in which the author describes a personal experience

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Point of View

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the perspective in which a story a told

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Subordinating Conjunction

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a word that joins a dependent clause and an independent clause

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Topic

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what a piece of writing is mostly about

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Transition

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a word or phrase that indicates the sequence of events or the connections between ideas

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Cause

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something that brings about an effect, result, etc. such as an event or action

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Cause and Effect Structure

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a text organization common in technical texts that shows the relationships between actions, or ideas

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Chronological Structure

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a text structure/organization of events in the order in which they happened

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Cite Details

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to point to examples in a text that support the central idea

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Compare

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to look for similarities between ideas, people, places, events, or passages

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Context Clue

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a word or phrase near an unknown word that helps the reader determine what the unknown word means

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Contrast

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to look for differences between ideas, people, places, events, or passages

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Details

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facts, statistics, explanations, data, and other evidence that help to convey the main idea of a text

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Domain Specific Vocabulary

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a word or phrase that has a specific meaning within a particular field of study or profession

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Draw Conclusions

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to make decisions about all of part of a passage based on info from the text, inferences, and prior knowledge

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Effect

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the result of a cause

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Evidence

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info an author provides to support his/her meaning/opinion including statistics, case studies, anecdotes, and expert opinions

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Fact

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info that can be observed or proven true

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Graphic Feature

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a diagram, model, or graph that provides info in an easy to read format

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Historical Texts

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a genre of writing that uses factual info to inform about events or people from history

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Integrate Visual Information

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to consider how a graphic feature helps the reader to better understand

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Main Idea

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what a story is mostly about

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Opinion

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a view that someone takes on a certain issue based on a personal judgement; a belief that can’t be proven true

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Primary Source

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a document, speech, image, or other piece of evidence created by someone who is/was present when an event happened

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Reasoned Judgement

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a personal view that’s based on facts, logic, and reason

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Secondary Source

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something created or written about an event by a person who’s not present when the event happened

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Steps in a Process

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an organizational pattern in which information is presented in a sequence

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Summarize

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to briefly restate the most important ideas of a passage in your own words

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Text Structure

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the way an author organizes and presents information and ideas in a text

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Aside

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a stage direction in a play that tells the actor to speak his/her lines to the audience and not to the other actors on stage

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Characterization

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the way an author/writer reveals a character’s personality

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Connotation

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the feeling/idea that a word expresses

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Denotation

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the dictionary definition of a word

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Dialogue

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the words that a character speaks in a text

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Drama

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a story that’s performed on a stage by actors/conversation

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Dramatic Structure

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the way in which a play is organized including acts, scenes, & stage directions

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Draw Conclusions

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to make decisions about all or part of a passage based on information from the text, inferences, and prior knowledge

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Figurative Language

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a word or phrase that means something other than its dictionary definition (simile, metaphor, etc.)

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Literal Language

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a word/phrase that means the same as its dictionary definition

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Main Idea

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what a story’s mostly about

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Metaphor

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a type of figurative language that uses an imaginative comparison of 2 things that aren’t alike without using like or as

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Mood

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the overall emotion created by a literary work

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Monologue

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a speech given by an actor that’s directed to the audience, not to the other actors

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Personification

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a type of figurative language that attributes human qualities and characteristics to nonliving things

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Plot

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the sequence of events in a story that includes the character’s actions, a conflict, and resolution

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Point of View

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the perspective in which a story is told

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Setting

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the time, place and circumstances in which a story occurs

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Soliloquy

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a speech given by a lone actor that’s directed to the audience and usually reveals the character’s innermost feelings

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Story Elements

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the pieces that make up a story, including a plot, characters, and setting

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Tone

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the feeling a writer evokes with the specific use of language

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