English Flashcards
What are Facts?
Facts are statements that can be proven.
What are your opinions?
Opinions are statements that cannot be proven or checked.
It tells what someone thinks, feels, or believes
What is Expository Writing?
Expository writing informs, or educate a reader about a topic.
Types of Text Patterns/Text Structures
Process Analysis - This text describes a sequence of events or a list of steps.
Compare & Contrast - This text discusses the similarities and differences between two or more things.
Cause & Effect - The text explains events (causes) and the results of those events (
effects).
Problem & Solution - The text describes a problem and how it is solved.
What is Redundancy?
When you use two or more words that mean the same thing.
Elements of a Poem?
Theme - this is the message of the poem.
Structure - this refers to the pattern or form of the poem.
Style/Language - this includes the various literary aspects in the poem (word choice, syntax literary devices.
Intention- this is the writer’s or speakers purpose in presenting the experience.
Mood - this is the atmosphere created in the poem. It is related to tone.
What is the author’s purpose?
To: Inform Persuade Entertain Describe
What are context clues?
Context clues or hints phone with in a sentence paragraph or passage that are reader can use to understand the meaning of a new or a familiar word.
What is an inference?
An inference is when you need to look for Clues before or after the unknown word can infer the meaning.
Types of context clues
Definition Synonym Antonym Example Inference
What is a summary?
A summer is a condensed or shortened version of a piece of writing. The men m in summer writing is to give the general idea of the original Source without changing its meaning.
What are equivalent sentences?
An equivalent sentence is a sentence that expresses the same meaning as another. The wording may be different but the same idea in sustained.
Concise language
When use concise language in a summary you must eliminate all examples. This means that you will have to practice how to use try to faces which can convey the same meaning without writing the actual examples.
Summary writing identifying main ideas
Main idea-the main idea is the most important points of a text. Good readers determine the main idea by looking for details in the text.
The main idea is sentence found in the first paragraph can also be at the middle or the end.
Identifying supporting details
These details describe or explain the main idea of the text. These details are important to the text and support the main idea.
The skill of skimming
Skimming is a comprehension skill that allows the reader to glance over a literary piece to select the Salient point.
Intervening Phrases
An intervening phrase comes between the subject and the verb in a sentence.
The intervening word or phrase does not affect the subject, so it does not make it a compound sentence. The subject determines whether the verb is single or. To adhere to the subject-verb agreement.
What is Construction shift?
This is the transposing or rearranging of a structure of a sentence without changing its original meaning.
What is persuasive writing?
Persuasive writing in the writing that tries to convince the reader to do something or to believe what you believe about that certain topic.
What is an advertisement?
Whenever people give information to the public about an event a product or a service using advertising. A piece of advertising is called an advertisement or ad.
Techniques used by advertisers
Scientific evidence Slogans Rhetorical question Facts and statistics Testimonials Emotional appeal Repetition Bandwagon
Structure of a persuasive essay
Introduction- captures the reader’s attention presents the issue and expresses.
The Writer’s opinion in a thesis statement.
The body-presents reasons, facts, examples, and expert opinion.
Should contain at least three reasons.
The conclusion- presents a summary are strong conclusive evidence but doesn’t present new information.
Components of a thesis statement
Describes the topic.
Introduce a specific claim you are making about the topic.
Describes three ways in which you would support and develop your claim.
Deleting statistical data
Statistical data is often used to make facts clearer.
They are used in;
persuasion
report and other expository essays
However, in a summary numbers percentages and ratios must be emitted.
