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Semester 1 EC Flashcards

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Fiction

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  • fake/ not real
  • a story read for enjoyment
  • characters, setting, conflict
  • Begging, middle, end
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Nonfiction

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  • real facts
  • photos and charts
  • tables of contents
  • read to learn and can skip around
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Exposition

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  • Characters, setting and basic situations are reaveled

- includes an inciting incident

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Rising action

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  • the main part of the story
  • where complications rise
  • moves the plot along
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Climax

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  • The most exciting part of the story

- the turning point

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Falling action

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  • The conflict is begging to move towards the reselution
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Resolution

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  • The end

- Every thing is solved

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Making predictions

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  1. Use authors clues to make predictions
  2. What do you think will happen based of clues
  3. Prove your prediction by using the text
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Adjectives

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-Describing words

-

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Adverbs

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-Modify or describe verbs and adjectives

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Conjunction

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Join words together to form new words

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Nouns

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  • People
  • Places
  • Things or ideas
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Verbs

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Express an action or state of being

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Articles

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-A special type of adjective used to identify a noun

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Pronoun

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  • Take the place of a noun
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Interjections

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Words to express emotion

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17
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Count nouns

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-Names that can be counted or made plural

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Non-count nouns

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  • Names that cannot be counted

- Cannot be plural

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First person

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-Story is told from one of the characters

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Third person limited

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Narrated by a outside observer

Focuses on the thought and feelings of one person

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Third person omniscient

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An outside observer and knows all thoughts and feelings

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Web sites

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Pages with info

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URL

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  • the website address

Universal Resorse Locator

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.edu

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-Educational institution

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.gov

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Government office

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.org

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-Nonprofit organization

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.com

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-Commercial organizations

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Home page

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  • A opening page to a website
  • Has links
  • Intro
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Link

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  • A connection to a new site or picture

- links can be highlighted or a photo

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Icon

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A small drawing or image

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Graphics

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Pictures and maps provide info and sometimes links

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Problem

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  • Something that caused the problem
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Solution

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How people solve the problem

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Memoir

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  • Focuses on a certain point in the writers life
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Personal narrative

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  • A story about you

- Events in the order it happens

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Autobiography

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  • A life story of one person
  • It has facts
  • Can include memoirs, diaries, dialogue
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Personal pronoun

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Replaces the subject or object

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Possessive

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Shows ownership

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Indefinite pronoun

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Does not refer to anything or specific

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Fact

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  • Something that is true

- Can be proven

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Opinion

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  • Something a person feels/ thinks
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Authors perspective

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  • Authors point of view
  • Based on opinion
  • shows Authours feelings and a subject about a topic
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Present participle

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  • A contentious action
  • Am, is, are
  • -ing
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Past

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  • Action already happened
  • -ed
  • Might be irregular
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Past participle

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  • Strated in the past but still continues

- -ed

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Irregular verbs

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  • Don’t follow rules
  • Spelling changes the majority of the time
  • Dose not have an -ed
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Tone

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The aditude of the writer is towards the subject

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Active voice

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The subject does preform the action

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Passive voice

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  • Dose not preform the action

- Has a helping verb and past participle

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Making inferences

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  • A logical quess

- Based on prior knowledge and text evidence

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Characterization

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The way the writer develops yeh character, and traits

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Internal conflict

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  • Takes place inside a characters mind

- Ivolves a choice

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External conflict

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  • The struggle against an outside force
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Person V.S self

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A struggle between thoughts, and feelings in a character

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Person V.S person

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A struggle between 2 characters physicals or mentally

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Person V.S nature

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A struggle between a character and Mother Nature

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Person V.S society

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A struggle between the charactera and the laws and beliefs

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Person V.S tech

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Like society

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Character motives

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A will to do something

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Text aids and features

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  • Diagrams
  • font styles
  • Index
  • Captions
  • Glossery
  • Table of contents
  • Charts and graphs
  • Headings and subtitles
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Drawing conclusions

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  1. Look for details in text
  2. Use prior knowledge
  3. Find a decision
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Theme

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The message of a story

- A moral or life lesson

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Prepositions

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Show location, direction, or time

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Prepositional phrases

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Begians with a preposition and ends with a object

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Pre-

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Before

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Be-

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To make or cause to be

67
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  • ation
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  • Making a noun

- An action or a process

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-able

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Makes a word and adjective

69
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  • sequ-

- sec-

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To follow

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-Scrib-

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To write

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  • pel-

- pul-

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To drive

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  • mens-

- met-

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To measure

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Dis-

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The oppistie of

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Re-

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Back

Return

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Ex-

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Out
From
Beyond

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In-

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Not

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-Migr-

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To move or to wonder

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-Clin-

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To lean

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-tempor-

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Time

80
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Com-

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With
Together
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