SEM EXAM REVIEW #5: TRUE OR FALSE?

sequence - An order of events; first, second, third, etc.

prose - Various forms of writing; including, short stories, essays, poetry, etc.

narrative poem - A type of figurative language comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as".

parts of speech - They include: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, articles, conjunctions, etc.

rhyme scheme - A pattern of end rhymes in a poem noted by assigning a letter of the alphabet, beginning with "A"

figurative language - language where the meaning must be inferred; it includes: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, etc.

focus - Paying attention to important idea, concept, or thing

playwright - a person who writes plays

argument - A statement put forth and supported by evidence

description - Writing that helps a reader to picture events, objects, and characters

introduction - the main reason

autobiography/autobiographical - A writer's account of his or her own life told from the first-person point of view.

metaphor - A type of figurative language comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as".

event - a happening or occurrence

biography/biographical - Any visual tool including: charts, diagrams, graphs, photographs, maps, timelines, etc.

timeline - a diagram that shows when events took place during a given period of time

informal (tone) - Writing that is casual or personal; it sounds as if speaking directly to the audience.

imagery - Words chosen to appeal to one of the reader's five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch.

legacy - a body of work

stanza - A piece of writing

central idea - The result of a cause; the latter part of a cause-and-effect sequence

spelling - using the correct arrangement of letters when writing a word

elaboration - explaining; the addition of details

poet - The author of the poem

narrative - The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.

Standard Conventions of English - The message about life or human nature in a text

Argumentation (Argumentative) Essay - An essay with the purpose of making a claim and supporting it.

determine - A nonfiction piece of informational text

poem - A form or writing that is usually "free" to follow its own structure or format

thesis statement - The controlling idea in an Explanatory (Informative) Essay

fact - a statement that is true

infer/inference - The most important idea about a topic that the writer or speaker conveys (communicates)

Explanatory (Informative) Essay - An essay with the purpose of explaining or informing about a topic

tone - A reason, or impetus, for why something happens; the first part in a cause-and-effect sequence

article (text) - the significance or importance

reason - The arrangement of events by their order of occurrence (the "time" order in which they happened).

essay - A group of paragraphs supporting a central idea

symbol/symbolize - A person, a place, an object, an animal, or an activity that stands for something

personification - describing a non-human thing as if having human characteristics, qualities, traits, or abilities.

effect - The result of a cause; the latter part of a cause-and-effect sequence

paragraph - a similarity in the ending sounds of words

evidence – proof

cause and effect - a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others

couplet - Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

organization - The structure of a a piece of text; how it is put together; the sequence

play - the writer's position on an issue or problem

line - in poetry, structure involves the arrangement of words, lines, and stanzas to produce a desired effect.

Characteristics - Writing in which the author shows that he or she is serious about a topic, main idea, or central idea.

context clue - a word within a text that helps to understand the meaning of a another word, concept, or idea

passage - a piece of text

punctuation - the marks used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

cite - To reference information that comes from the text