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What is KWL?

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Graphical organizer designed to help in leaning. Parts: already know, want to know, ultimately learn.

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What is reciprocal reading?

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Structured method of guided reading for small groups

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What is SQ3R?

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Reading comprehension method. Parts: survey, question, read, recite, review.

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What are epigrams?

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Brief, interesting, satirical (funny) statement or poem.

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What are euphemisms?

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A word or expression used in place of an offensive word or phrase.

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What is denotation?

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Literal/primary meaning of a word

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What is a literature circle?

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Small group that gathers to discuss a book.

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What is think-pair-share?

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Cooperative learning strategy. Think for yourself, pair with a partner, and share your thoughts with each other.

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What is reciprocal teaching?

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Improve reading comprehension by teaching strategies to obtain meaning from a text.

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What is a mind map?

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Used to capture the thinking on the mind with a map to show ideas/way of thinking.

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What is a digital story?

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Share story online with a narrative storyline.

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What is emotional appeal?

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Direct way to sway audience emotions and uses emotions over logic to win the argument.

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What are loaded words?

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Significant emotional implications and involve positive/negative reactions beyond their literal meaning.

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What is snob appeal?

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Makes the case that using product will make consumer better/smarter/richer than everyone else.

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What is metonymy?

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Substitution of the name of an attribute.

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What are metrics?

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Combinations of stressed and unstressed syllables. Likely in a poem

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What is semantics?

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Study of reference, meaning, or truth.

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What is Middle English?

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Spoken after Norman Conquest of 1066 (1150-1470)

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What is Elizabethan English?

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Shakespeare timeframe (1500-1750)

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What is Early Modern English?

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Tutor period/Restoration period (15th -17th century)

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What is a self assessment rubric?

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Student assess, list of criteria for their work and they address it themselves.

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What is a primary trait scoring rubric?

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Score student products with primary traits that will be assessed. The rubric has a section for each of these primary traits.

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What is a semantic feature analysis?

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Therapy technique that focuses of the meaning - based properties of nouns.

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What is reciprocal learning?

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Cooperative learning strategy that aims to improve student’s reading comprehension skills.

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What is background building?

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Helps students activate their existing foundation knowledge.

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What is annotation?

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A note of explanation or comment added to the text.

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What is figurative language?

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Type of communication that does not use a word’s struct or realistic meaning.

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What is sentence structure?

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The subject and the predicate. It also involves the different types of sentence (simple, compound, complex, compound complex).

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What is modernist writing?

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Free verse, “stream of consciousness”, numerous points of view included.

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What is realistic writing?

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Represent truthfully, avoid fiction and supernatural.

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What is absurdist writing?

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Non-chronological storytelling, surrealism, and comedy to explore themes like existentialism and human condition.

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What is the straw man fallacy?

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When your opponent over-simplifies or misrepresents your argument to make it easier to attack/refute.

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What is the bandwagon fallacy?

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When a significant population believe something, doesn’t make it true. Happens a lot with advertising.

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What is the appeal to authority fallacy?

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Getting an authority figure to back you up in an argument.

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What is a false dilemma fallacy?

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Misleads by presenting complex issues in terms of 2 inherently opposed sides.

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What is an analytic rubric?

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Resembles a grid with the criteria for a student product listed in the leftmost column and with levels of performance listed across the top row with numbers or descriptive tags.

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What is a developmental rubric?

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Subset of an analytical rubric. Designed to answer the question “to what extend are students developing”?

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What is a holistic rubric?

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A single scale with all criteria to be included in the evaluation being considered together. Based on overall work.

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What is a checklist?

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Only two performance levels are possible for grading (you either have it or you don’t). Longer than other rubrics. Rubrics can be made easily into a checklist.

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What does an electronic source need?

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Date the source was accessed.

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What is code switching?

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The ability to modify one’s language according to audience and purpose.

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What is the use of a checklist for?

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A rubric for student mastery. Used in the editing stage of writing.

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What are language conventions?

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Mechanics, sentence structure, and correct grammar

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How can you encourage student discussion?

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Have a list of sample questions that relate to the text for students to use.

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How do you have productive participation in class?

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Work in pairs to gain opinions that encourage individual accountability. Gives students a chance to share with others and think differently from other opinions.

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What is a journal entry?

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Personal information and reflection. Mostly narrative

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How can students interact through a blog?

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Leaving and responding to comments on the page.

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How do you make a parenthetical citation in MLA?

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If authors name is in the sentence text, (page number). If authors name is not in the sentence text (authors name, page number).

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What is a bar graph?

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Usually represents sizes of each group of something.

50
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What does the word “consequently” mean in a piece of writing?

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Indicated a cause and effect relationship between two pieces inside the writing.

51
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What is the mode of writing?

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Brainstorm situations to provide an opinion to establish purpose and directions for writing.

52
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What is appropriate format writing?

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Audience, purpose, task.

53
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What is an example of active participation?

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Annotate with questions and comments when reading a piece of work.

54
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How do you select credible source?

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To verify information against other sources to see if it is credible.

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How do you assess writing from students?

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Creating guidelines with students. They know what to expect this way and can feel involved in their learning.

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What is the jigsaw activity?

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Small group discussion. Each group member reads a certain portion of the text and teaches the content to other members of the group.

57
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What does writing in a variety of forms do?

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Targets philosophy of writing across the curriculum.

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What is an example of formative assessment in writing?

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Hold writing conferences for rough drafts with students.

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What is a credible source?

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An online peer-reviewed journal

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What is a Socratic seminar?

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Student led discussions to share their thoughts. Formal discussion based on text. The teacher is the facilitator here.

61
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How should a teacher choose texts for class reading?

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Based on student interests and abilities

62
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Why should you record presentations?

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They go by fast. Allows for review to collaborate in small groups to analyze their effectiveness of the presentation.

63
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What is a .gov source like?

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The most reliable source. Cannot be purchased by public domains, and have strict guidelines regulated by government rules.

64
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What should teachers provide for ELL students?

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Provide visual aids, provide outlines of texts, allow students to make connections to their own cultures when discussing topics.

65
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What does interactions with books do for students?

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Provide studnets with the ability to be more engaged.

66
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What are connotations?

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Notions associated with a word that goes beyond the word’s explicit or denoted meaning.

67
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What is paralanguage?

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Elements of speech that suggest meaning/ convey emotion.

68
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What is a primary source?

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A Document or physical object during the time under study. (Ex. Speech, clothes)

69
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What is a semi-colon?

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Used to separate lists of items that are separated by commas.

70
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What is a dictionary?

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Word meanings, part of speech, etymology, among other things.

71
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What is a memoir?

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Form of narrative writing, typically include a significant life event of the author.

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What is an analytic rubric?

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Lists criteria dimensions of performance and describes level of proficiency for each dimension.

73
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What is a wiki?

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Online tool for collaboratively creating or editing content.

74
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What is a personification?

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Giving human like characteristics to non-human things.

75
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What is a psychoanalytic critic?

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Dissecting psychology of characteristics.

76
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What is third person omniscient?

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Tells what is happening in the scene and how the character feels. (Uses they, he, she, etc.)

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What is argumentative writing?

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Persuasive, tries to get the reader to agree with the main point.

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When is a letter used for writing?

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When addressing a specific audience about a particular topic.

79
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How should a slideshow page look?

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Limit the information to essentials

80
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What are functional text used for/ look like?

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Used to Inform, lists of instructions

81
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What are expository texts used for and what do they look like?

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Used to inform. Has a cause and effect structure as well.

82
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What is parallel structure?

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Phrases used in a parallel way to connect to sentences.

83
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What is a hyperbole?

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An exaggeration to prove a point.

84
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What is vanity?

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People who talk about themselves a lot

85
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What is first person POV?

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Use of the word “I”

86
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What is an allusion?

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Reference to bible, mythology, etc.

87
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What is a style manual?

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Guidelines for documenting sources.

88
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What is a thesaurus?

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Where synonyms can be found for words.

89
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Where should commas and periods go with quotes?

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Go inside the quotations.

90
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What are context clues?

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Found in sentences to help understand a word/phrase

91
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What is orthography?

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Spellings of words in the English language - pronunciation

92
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What is old English?

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Germanic language which gave us the most basic words (Beowulf is written in this)

93
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What is vernacular language?

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Native language or dialect of specific population.

94
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What is a kinesthetic activity?

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Interact with words by creating visual representation.

95
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What is a gerund phrase?

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Verb ending in ‘ing’ used as a noun.

96
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What is denotation?

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The definition of a word

97
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What is gothic fiction?

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Grotesque, violent, mysterious and supernatural writing

98
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What is unrelated to evaluating an article itself?

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The number of links to other sites

99
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What is simplistic writing?

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Negative connotation, insufficiently complex approach

100
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What is a mock epic?

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Elevated style of epic - epic conventions as invocations.

101
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What is a dramatic monologue?

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Spoken by characters whose personality, motives, and circumstances shape the way he/she tells a story.

102
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What is a ballad?

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Anonymous narrative poems, 4 line stanzas, ABAB rhyme

103
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What is a testimonial?

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When a celebrity, expert, or satisfied customer endorses a product.

104
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Who wrote the Secret Life of Bees?

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Sue Monk Kidd

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What is the Oxford English Dictionary used for?

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Giving current/common definitions and the history of words

106
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What is the rhetorical strategy: description used for?

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Use of details to create a picture in the head of the readers.

107
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What is reverent?

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Barren, challenging, lonely, isolating (good words to describe it)

108
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What is a compound sentence?

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Two or more independent clauses

109
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What is a sonnet?

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14 lines, requisite rhyme scheme, iambic pentameter.

110
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What is an antagonist?

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Opposing character in a literary drama

111
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What is the main idea of Anthem by Ayn Rand?

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Main characters struggle to break free of his collectivist society and become an individual

112
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What is Tone (difficult meaning)?

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Hard to understand, deal with, or manage. By using the word difficult, the tone is annoyed

113
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Who wrote the joy of luck club?

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Amy Tan

114
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Who wrote the color purple?

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Alice Walker

115
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Who wrote the woman warrior?

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Maxine H. Kingston.

116
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Who wrote their eyes were watching god?

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Zora Neale Hurston

117
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Who wrote Beloved?

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Toni Morrison

118
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What is an anticipation guide?

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A series of questions students are asked to respond to (agree/disagree) before a unit

119
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What is a haiku?

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5 syllables in first line, 7 in second, and 5 in third. Normally about nature

120
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Who wrote leather stocking tales (main character was Natty Bumppo)?

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James Cooper

121
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Who wrote Annabel Lee (about lost love)?

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Edgar Allen Poe

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What is iambic pentameter?

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A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable.

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