Reading Flashcards
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Topic
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Overall subject matter
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Main idea
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Is what the author wants to say
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Theme
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Generally true idea that the reader might derive from a text
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Non fiction-
Fiction-
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Theme
Main idea topic
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Non fiction- main idea
Fiction- theme
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Topic sentence
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Generally the first sentence or close to it. Introduces reader to topic
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Summary sentence
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Wraps up the idea
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Supporting details
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Build arguments and contain main ideas
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Signal words
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Or transitions or conjunctions
Explain to the reader how one sentence
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Cause and effect
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Situation and then it’s effects
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Compare and contrast
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Similarities and differences
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Conclusion vs interference
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Conclusion- next logical point in the thought of sequence
Interference- an educated guess
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Narrative
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Author tells a story
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Expository
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Author explains an idea or topic
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Technical
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Author explains specific processes
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Rhetorical strategies
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Assist the author building an argument
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Ethos
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Ethical appeal
Balanced fair language
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Logos
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Logical appeal
Facts
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Pathos
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Emotional appeal
Imagery
Strong language
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Tone vs mood
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Tone- authors attitude
Mood- pervasive feeling throughout
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Diction
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Used to determine mood or tone
Word choice of author
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Connotative meaning
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Emotional meaning of a word
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Metaphor
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Correlates two ideas
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Similie
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Directly points to the similarities between two things
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Are examples of what kind of source Letters Autobiographies Firsthand accounts Interviews Speeches Photos News stories
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Primary source
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Are examples of what kind of source
Literary criticism
Biographies
Historical criticism
Political analysis
Essays on ethics
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Secondary sources
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What are examples of real numbers
Natural number
Integer
Whole number
Rational number
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Natural number
Whole number
Greater then zero
No decimal or fractions or
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Integers
Negative and positive numbers
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Rational number
Fraction or decimal that ends
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Irrational number
Cannot be represented by fraction
D
Is a decimal that never ends
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Real number
Represented by a point on a number line
| Includes rational and irrational numbers
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Is a natural number greater than 1 which can only be divided evenly by 1 and itself
Prime number
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suffix
a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative, e.g., -ation, -fy, -ing, -itis.
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preffix
a word, letter, or number placed before another.
| "add the prefix 83 to the extension number"
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root
A root word has no prefix or suffix — it's the most basic part of a word. ... In linguistics, a root word holds the most basic meaning of any word. It's what's left after you remove all the affixes — the prefixes like "un-" or "anti-" and suffixes such as "-able" and "-tion."
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how are book titles written
capitalized and italicized
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An exclamatory sentence shows
strong emotion
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An imperative sentence is a
direction or command
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A complex sentence joins an
independent and dependent clause
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What is independent and dependent clause?
A dependent clause is a group of words that also contains a subject and a verb, but it is not a complete thought. Because it is not a complete thought, a dependent clause cannot stand on its own as a sentence; it is dependent on being attached to an independent clause to form a sentence.
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What is an independent clause
An independent clause is a clause that can stand alone as a sentence (i.e., it expresses a complete thought). An independent clause, like all clauses, has a subject and verb. When there are no dependent clauses in the same sentence as an independent clause, the independent clause is a simple sentence.
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Noun
A noun is generally defined as a person, place, or thing; however, ideas are also nouns. For example, love is not a tangible thing that can be seen or held, but clearly it exists, so it is a also a noun.
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Proper nouns are
the names of people or places that are capitalized (Aims Community College, John Smith, etc.).
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Common nouns are
names that do not require capitalization (book, chair, school, etc).
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A verb is
A verb is a word that describes action or a state of being
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An action verbs
linking verb
verb tense
action verbs- words that can be visualized. action verbs: run, walk, play, jump, sing, scream, etc.
Linking verbs- do not express action; instead, they express identity, classification, or existence. (Examples of linking verbs: is, am, was, were, are, and verb phrases ending in be, been, being.)
Verb tense- when verbs change their form as different endings are added to them. Endings show a verb’s relationship to time.
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Pronoun
A pronoun is a word that is used to replace a noun For example, instead of saying “Sam likes pizza” we can use “He” as a substitute for Sam. Writers need to be careful with pronoun use, as pronouns should only be used after a noun has been used first, and it must be clear which noun the pronoun is replacing.
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Adjective
An adjective modifies (limits or describes) a noun or a pronoun. Essentially, it provides more information about a person, place, or thing. For instance, in the sentence Frank is a tall, skinny man, both tall and skinny are adjectives as they are used to describe Frank.
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Adverb
Similar to adjectives, an adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. In the sentence Susan walked slowly towards the door, the word slowly serves as an adverb since it describes how she walked.
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Preposition
A preposition shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence. This relationship is spatial, temporal, or directional. For instance, in the sentence Mark walked towards the house, the word towards is a preposition since it shows direction. When linked with nouns or pronouns, prepositions create word groups referred to as prepositional phrases. (In the previous example, towards the house is a prepositional phrase.)
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conjunctions
Conjunctions are used to link words or parts of sentences together.
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interjections
An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion and is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence. Interjections can also serve as a single word sentence (ex: Wow!). Interjections are rarely used in academic writing and their use should be avoided in most essays.
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A theme is
an underlying, abstract idea, such as love or freedom.
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A topic is
a specific subject, such as "trees".
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In the passive voice, the verb acts on
on the subject of the sentence rather than on the object. In the sentence "The ball was hit by Mickey," the subject is ball and the object is Mickey, and the subject receives the action of the object.
