Language / literature

Question 1

Allegory

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A story in which people things and events have another meaning. An example of an allegory is Orwell’s animal farm

Question 2

Connotation

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The implications of a word or phrase as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation) both China and Cathay denote a region in Asia but to modern reader the association of the two words is different

Question 3

Denotation

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The dictionary meaning of a word as opposed to connotation

Question 4

Euphemism

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A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness such as deceased for dead or remains for corpse

Question 5

Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration, overstatement. As a rule hyperbole is a self-conscious without the intention of being excepted literally @the strongest man in the world” and “the diamond as big as the Ritz” are hyperbolic

Question 6

Alliteration

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The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables

Question 7

Denouement

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(Resolution) The point when the conflict is resolved, remaining loose ends are tied up, or stated directly

Question 8

Expository

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Mode of writing in which the purpose is to inform, explain, clarify, describe, or define a subject to the reader

Question 9

Teaching comprehension

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Ask students questions about the text they are reading.

Ask students to summarize parts of the text

Help students clarify words and sentences they don’t understand

Asked students to predict what might occur next in the text

Talk about the content

Question 10

Metacognition

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Thinking about thinking

Question 11

Fast mapping

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A process whereby young children are able to use context to arrive at a quick guess of words meanings.

nouns are easier to fast map then verbs

Question 12

Habituation

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Infants and children repeat sounds that are reinforced. Children can distinguish abstract rules for sentence structure.

Question 13

Syntax

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is the grammar of a language - the rules by which to form sentences or expressions.

The examination of various ways that words combined to create meaning, the study of how sentences are formed, and the pattern or structure of word order in sentences

Question 14

Semantics

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deals with the study of meaning; how we combine words to create meaningful discourse. It studies the relationship between signs and symbols and what they represent.

This is a useful strategy in decoding to analyze the word that “sounds” correct in a sentence

Question 15

Pathos

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Feeling of pity for the misfortune of others

Question 16

Digraphs

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Parts of words that always sound the same example;

Sh, ph, ch, qu

Question 17

An individual who speaks a language historically related to English may have an advantage and learning English as a second language because

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Many words and roots are likely to have similar spellings in meanings

Question 18

The alphabetic principle

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The idea that in English words are made up of letters that approximate the sounds heard when we speak these words

Question 19

Colloquial speech

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Informal language. Example; ain’t

Question 20

Ballad

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A narrative poem that tells a simple story often about lost and found love, it is a stanza structure is typically four lines

Question 21

Sonnet

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Usually about love, and the structure typically consist of 14 lines: an octave (eight lines), followed by the sestet (six lines)

Question 22

Antithesis

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A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else