Duplicate of English-Language Arts Terms

Question 1

To detect similarities between two or more ideas, objects, and/or concepts

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Compare

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A text used for informational purposes that references or interprets one or more primary source

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Secondary Source

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A subtle difference in a shade of meaning, expression, or sound

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Nuance

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Influential and important works in United States history

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Seminal U.S. documents

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What may be suggested by or associated with the meaning of a word

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Connotation

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The motive or reason for which an author writes, as to entertain, inform, or persuade

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Author's Purpose

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To make the meaning more transparent and easy to understand

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Clarify

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A short, concise statement of widely accepted truth about everyday life

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Proverb

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A cultural narrative of ancient origin which explains why the world is the way it is

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Myth

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Indicates differences

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Contrast

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A lyric poem consisting of a 14 line stanza of iambic pentameter

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Sonnet

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The use of ridicule or sarcasm, in humorous of witty ways, to expose immorality or foolishness

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Satire

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Fact, figures, details, or quotations to provide support for claims or analysis.

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Evidence

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Persons represented in a dramatic or narrative work

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Character

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Written or spoken language that is not verse/poetry

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Prose

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An assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory

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Premise

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To translate from the original text into one's own words

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Paraphrase

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A conclusion logically drawn from presented information

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Inference

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The general place, historical time, and social circumstances in which action occurs in a story

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Setting

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A short narrative in prose which has been a part of an oral tradition over generations

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Folktale

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A statement in which the meaning the speaker implies differs sharply from what is directly said

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Verbal Irony

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The repetition of speech sounds in the beginning of nearby words.

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Alliteration

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The intended target group of a message, such as adolescents for young adult literature

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Audience

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Taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

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Plagiarism

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The emotions expressed by an author in rhetoric, structure, or perspective of his/her work

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Mood

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To describe or outline with precision

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Delineate

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An arguable statement

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Claim

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The technique of disrupting the order of events in a story by shifting to an earlier time

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Flashback

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A narrator who is a participant in the story and uses the pronouns I and me.

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First Person

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A type of oral or written communication that debates a topic in a logical or persuasive way

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Argument

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An original text used largely for informational purposes, as in research

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Primary Source

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Use of details from the five senses to appeal to the reader

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Sensory Language

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The act of a character in a drama, alone on stage, uttering his thoughts aloud

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Soliloquy

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Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory

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Literal

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The effective use of language in prose or oration to communicate with, inform, or persuade

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Rhetoric

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A literary genre designed for performance in the theater with actors in roles

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Drama

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The stylistic choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

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Diction

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The chief topic of a passage expressed or implied in a word or phrase

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Main Idea

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A product that serves as an excellent illustration of a point, principle, or model

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Exemplar

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A type or class or literature (fiction, drama, poetry)

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Genre

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A unit of rhythm; the recurrence of a prominent features in speech sounds, usually in poetry

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Meter

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The events and actions of a narrative work

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Plot

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An evaluation tool or guideline that outlines the criteria and indicators of success

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Rubric

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To break material down into its parts and determine how the parts relate to one another

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Analyze

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Arguable statements intended to dispute other claims

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Counterclaim

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Relationships created between new and familiar words, concepts, and ideas

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Analogy

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A narrator who addresses a story to someone he or she calls "you"

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Second Person

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When an object or concept is spoken of as through it were endowed with human attributes

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Personification

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A passing reference in a text to a literary or historical person, place, event, or work.

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Allusion

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Words or expressions with meaning other than the literal interpretation

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Figurative Language

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Represented by a mismatch between expectation and realtiy

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Situational Irony

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Phrases or expression that have meanings different from the literal

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Idiom

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A principal or value of human behavior

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Moral

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The study of the structure and construction of words including where the word originated

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Morphology

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To condense a text to its general theme(s) or major points

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Summarize

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A grouping of lines of verse in a poem (a poetry paragraph)

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Stanza

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A humorous play on words that are the same or similar in sound but different in meaning

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Pun

Question 58

The literal meaning of a word (dictionary definition)

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Denotation

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A comparison between two distinctly different things indicated with like or as

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Simile

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Intended or suggested rather than directly stated. A symphony of lawnmowers is an_____ metaphor

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Explicit

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The person in a fictional narrative who relates the account or story

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Narrator

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The construction of word forms, sentences, clauses, or paragraphs in the same format

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Parallel Structure

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A type of comparison in which a expression's literal meanining is applied to a different thing

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Metaphor

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A word having the opposite meaning of another word (e.g., cool : warm)

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Antonym

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