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ELA unit 4 test Flashcards

1
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What is parallelism?

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It is similar grammatical forms or patterns to express similar things within a sentence.

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What is descriptive writing?

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It uses sensory details.

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What are sensory details?

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It is sight taste smell and touch.

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What is the author’s point of view?

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It is the author’s perspective or viewing of topics.

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What is a mood in writing?

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It is an overall feeling using the description.

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What do adjectives and adverbs do?

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They modify the nouns and verbs in their sentences.

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What are misunderstandings?

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It is a failure to understand something correctly.

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What is misrepresentation?

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the action or offense of giving a false or misleading account of the nature of something.

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what does the prefix mis- mean?

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It means not or wrong.

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What are persuasive techniques?

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It is an argument to lead an audience to agree.

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What is repetition do?

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It is consists of saying something repeatedly for effect.

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What is the appeal to reason?

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It is when it relies on sound reasoning, and invites the audience to use logic and draw conclusions for the evidence.

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13
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What is the appeal to emotions?

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It is to persuade readers by using feelings.

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What is appeals to authority?

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It is when references to expert opinions.

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What is word choice?

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It includes individual words and phrases to express the writer’s uses.

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What is tone?

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It is the writer’s attitude toward the topic or audience.

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17
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What is characterization in Nonfiction?

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It is to help portray real-life people are the subjects.

18
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What is characterization?

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The techniques writers use to portray characters.

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What is direct characterization?

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It is the writer who simply tells the reader things.

20
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What is indirect characterization?

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It is where the writer reveals a subject by including character words and describing the character’s actions.

21
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What is an inference?

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It is educated guesses to determine what the person is like.

22
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What is an argument?

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It is an author presents a claim or position about a topic.

23
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What are logical fallacies?

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It is an overgeneralization and a slippery slope.

24
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What is overgeneralization?

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It is a conclusion that overstates the facts.

25
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What is a slippery slope?

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It is when asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events resulting in significant effects.

26
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What does the suffix -ful mean?

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It means full of or having qualities of.

27
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What does the Latin root just mean?

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It means lawful or guided by truth and fairness.

28
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What is a noun?

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It is the name of a person, place, or thing.

29
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What is a pronoun?

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It replaces a noun already used or implied in a sentence.

30
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What is a proper noun?

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It is specific persons, places, or things.

31
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What do proper nouns start with?

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They start with capital letters.

32
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What are possessive nouns?

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It indicates possession.

33
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What do possessive nouns have?

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They have apostrophes.

34
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What are personal pronouns?

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They refer to persons or things.

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What are possessive pronouns?

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It replaces possessive nouns.

36
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How do you know it is possessive pronouns?

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It shows ownership.

37
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What do simple sentences consist of?

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It consists of one independent clause, a subject, and a verb.

38
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What do compound sentences consist of?

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It consists of two or more independent clauses linked by a conjunction such as and, but, or.

39
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What are the parallel forms?

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Nouns, verb forms, phrases, adverb clauses, and adjective clauses.

40
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What question do adverbs answer?

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The answer is to what extent.

41
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What suffix do adverbs often end in?

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The suffix -ly.

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