Midterm 2 Flashcards
Diverse
Adj. Showing a great deal of variety; Very different
Proficient
Adj. Competent or skilled in doing or using something
Skilled, expert
Catalyst
N. A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change
Stimulus, encouragement, spur
Justify
V. Show or prove to be right or reasonable
Sonnet form
A medium for thoughts about topics such as love and death
Imagery
Language that uses images
Words or phrases that appeal to the sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell
Denotation
Is providing the literal or dictionary definition of a term
Connotation
Is illustrating the implied meaning of the term or idea
Class act - a person who is considerate of others
Enumeration
Employs a list to define
Analogy
Is implementing a comparison of two similar things
Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you’re gonna get
Negation
Is defining something by stating what it is NOT
Unsound
Adj. Not safe or robust; In poor condition
Peculiar
N. Strange or odd; Unusual
Fluke
n. An unlikely chance or occurrence, especially surprising piece of luck
Materialist
N. A person who considers material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values
Layman
N. A non-ordained male member of a church
Proportion
N. A part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole
Assertion
N. A confident and forceful statement of fact or belief
Declaration, claim
Indulgent
Adj. Having or indicating a readiness or over readiness to be generous to or lenient with someone
Citing text
- Start by putting quotes around the authors words
- Put the authors last name and page number inside parenthesis
- Move the end punctuation to the end of the sentence outside the parenthesis
If you don’t know the authors name
Use the title of the text instead
Put title of books in
Italics
Put titles of articles
In quotation marks
You may shorten a long title but
Make sure it connects to the bibliography
If the source has two or three authors
Include all authors
( Smith, Brown, and Williams 1).
If the source has four or more authors
(Smith, et al. 1).
Citing dialogue
Replace quotation marks inside of your quote with the apostrophe mark
Citing poetry
Use / between each line
Numbers in parentheses represent line number
Five citing techniques
Run in quote
Peppering a quote
Block quotation
Deleting parts of a quote
Paraphrase
Run in quote
Begins with your own words and seamlessly flows into a quote from text or can start with a quote and conclude with your own words
Must include some of your words before or after the quote
Peppering a quote
Spring the quotations throughout the sentence
Embed a few words or phrases within your sentence
Block quotations
When you “many lines of text in Dent each line inside of your text
Deleting parts of a quote
Use ‘…’
Paraphrase
When you take the sentence/thoughts and we were this into your own words
Save the source when paraphrasing closely to the author thoughts or original message
Signal phrases
Come before a quote or information indicating that you are referencing a source
Sonnets
A form of poetry that has a predetermined structure
