Test #8 Flashcards by Krystyna Valdivia

Eight parts of speech are…

Noun, verb, pronoun, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, interjection

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Define the eight parts of speech

Noun-person place thing. Conjunction-connects words Verb-action linking helping. Interjection -expresses feeling
Pronoun-used in place of nouns
Adverb-modifies a verb
Adjective-modifies noun or pnoun
Preposition-shows relationship between n or p and another word

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Underline…

Books works of art plays words

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Quote…

Chapter titles short poems episodes

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Numbers

Three words use numerals
Dates use numerals
Write if # begins a sentence

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5essential comma spots

Items in a series Comma error spot
After intro Dates locations titles
Interrupters

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Semi colon spots

For clarity
Join independent clauses
W/conj. adverbs

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Essential colon spots

Before formal lists
Before formal statements or quotes
Between Ind clauses whenever second clause explains first

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Rhetoric

Art of persuasion in speaking and writing

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Claim

Your thesis statement

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Counter claim

Mentioning your opponents strongest points and dismissing them with your supported opinion

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Classical rhetoric appeals

Logos- appeals to readers ability to reason
Pathos- appeal to emotion
Ethos- appeal to what other respected people think of your own credibility

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3000-50 BC

Ancient Egypt

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1607

Jamestown

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1776

D of I

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1861-1865

Civil war

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1917-1918

WWI

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1941-1945

WWII

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1960s

Vietnam war civil rights jfk milk

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Hook meathods

Anecdote fig Lang statement dialogue

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Hero journey

1 separation
2 initiation
3 discovery
4 return

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One of the four humors meaning anger

Choler

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Cruel ruler

Tyrant

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Harmful

Pernicious

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Enemy

Adversary

Heroic brave courageous

Valiant

Suffering pain

Anguish

Magnificent, grand

Splendor

Wedding marriage

Nuptials

State of seriousness

Solemnity

Outward appearance

Semblance

Confession

Shrift

Lies

Perjuries

State of envy or jealousy

Envious

Courteous polite kind

Gracious

Abuse torture to make someone suffer

Torment

To question ask about

Inquire

To fake to pretend to be affected

Feign

Speed, urgency in movement

Haste

Eat, consume quickly

Devour

Excessive pride in ones self

Conceit

Fight

Quarrel

Chaos excessive disagreement

Discord

Accepting circumstances

Submission

A man exhibiting female characteristics

Effeminate

Loving feeling affection

Amorous

Bright stands out

Garish

Tiresome

Tedious

Lying misinterpreting the truth

Deceit

Native naturally occurring in a particular region

Indigenous

Acts of straying from the right or normal way

Aberrations

With out permission

Illicitly

Quality of being religious or reverent

Piety

To instruct and improve, particularly in more religious knowledge

Edification

Conductive to success favorable

Auspicious

Act of kindness wanting to do good

Benevolence

Exhibiting a tendency to quarrels or disputes

Contentious

Be filled with a feeling of love for

Enamored

Overwhelm with things or people to be dealt with

Inundate

Showing a comparison, a relationship

Analogous

Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph

Jubilant

Inborn natural

Innate

Concise and exact use of words in writing or speech

Brevity

Coming after something in time following

Subsequent

Action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry

Provocation

Characterized by anger violent

Vehement

Having or displaying a friendly or pleasant manner

Amiable

Lacking in special interest, dull

Blandly

Evil harmful cruel

Malicious

To put down bully, deny self worth

Degrading

Reddish but healthy in color

Ruddy

Approach and address boldly or aggressively

Accost

Incapable of producing any useful result, pointless

Futile

Consisting of parts that together form a whole

Integration

Act or practice of being separate

Segregation

Taking extreme care with minute details. Precise

Meticulous

Form of punishment in which a person is forced to run through two rows of people who strike at him or her

Gauntlet

Extremely disturbing or distressing

Harrowing

A complete failure, disaster, catastrophe

Fiasco

An overwhelming quality or explosion as words, blows, criticism

Barrage

Prevent someone from accomplishing something

Thwarted

Root | In front of, earlier

Fore

Root | Faith

Fid

Root | Flower

Flor

Root | Preform work

Funct

Root | Earth global ,soil

Geo

Root | Angle

Gon

Root | Sun

Helio

Root | Too much over exsessive

Hyper

Root | Under

Hypo

Root | Medical care

Iatr

Root | Peculiar, personal, distinct

Idio

Root | Beneath blow

Infra

Root | Between among jointly

Inter

Root | Throw

Ject

Root | Work

Lab

Root | Milk

Lac

Root | Side

Later

Root | Long

Macro

Root | Great, large

Magn

Root | Mental illness

Mania