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Midterm 2 Flashcards

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Diverse

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Adj. Showing a great deal of variety; Very different

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Proficient

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Adj. Competent or skilled in doing or using something

Skilled, expert

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Catalyst

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N. A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change

Stimulus, encouragement, spur

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Justify

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V. Show or prove to be right or reasonable

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Sonnet form

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A medium for thoughts about topics such as love and death

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Imagery

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Language that uses images
Words or phrases that appeal to the sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell

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Denotation

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Is providing the literal or dictionary definition of a term

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Connotation

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Is illustrating the implied meaning of the term or idea

Class act - a person who is considerate of others

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Enumeration

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Employs a list to define

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Analogy

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Is implementing a comparison of two similar things

Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you’re gonna get

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Negation

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Is defining something by stating what it is NOT

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Unsound

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Adj. Not safe or robust; In poor condition

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Peculiar

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N. Strange or odd; Unusual

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Fluke

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n. An unlikely chance or occurrence, especially surprising piece of luck

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Materialist

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N. A person who considers material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values

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Layman

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N. A non-ordained male member of a church

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Proportion

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N. A part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole

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Assertion

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N. A confident and forceful statement of fact or belief

Declaration, claim

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Indulgent

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Adj. Having or indicating a readiness or over readiness to be generous to or lenient with someone

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Citing text

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  1. Start by putting quotes around the authors words
  2. Put the authors last name and page number inside parenthesis
  3. Move the end punctuation to the end of the sentence outside the parenthesis
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If you don’t know the authors name

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Use the title of the text instead

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Put title of books in

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Italics

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Put titles of articles

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In quotation marks

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You may shorten a long title but

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Make sure it connects to the bibliography

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If the source has two or three authors

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Include all authors
( Smith, Brown, and Williams 1).

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If the source has four or more authors

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(Smith, et al. 1).

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Citing dialogue

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Replace quotation marks inside of your quote with the apostrophe mark

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Citing poetry

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Use / between each line
Numbers in parentheses represent line number

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Five citing techniques

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Run in quote
Peppering a quote
Block quotation
Deleting parts of a quote
Paraphrase

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Run in quote

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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

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Peppering a quote

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Spring the quotations throughout the sentence
Embed a few words or phrases within your sentence

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Block quotations

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When you “many lines of text in Dent each line inside of your text

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Deleting parts of a quote

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Use ‘…’

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Paraphrase

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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

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Signal phrases

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Come before a quote or information indicating that you are referencing a source

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Sonnets

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A form of poetry that has a predetermined structure

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