English Final Flashcards
Colloquial language
A word or expression that was used in a certain historical time or place.
Closed
A thesis that tells the reader both your position and the reasons you feel that way.
Open
A thesis that tells the reader only your position on a topic.
Subject
A person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with.
Literary elements
Give the reader a way to follow the story and understand what is happening.
First person
A category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker ( first person ), the addressee ( second person ), or a third party ( third person ).
Ex. Me, I, we
Second person
A set of words or forms (such as pronouns or verb forms) that refer to the person that the speaker or writer is addressing.
Ex. You
Third person
A set of words or forms (such as pronouns or verb forms) that refer to people or things that the speaker or writer is not addressing directly.
Ex. He, She, It
Plot
The main events in a story that are lined in a sequence.
Close reading
An approach to teaching comprehension that insists students extract meaning from text by examining carefully how language is used in the passage itself
