Vocab 1-31

The measurement system commonly used in the United States that measures length in inches, feet, yards and miles.

Which of the following are transition words

A triangle with all corners being less than 90 degrees

Using the rules of spelling, punctuation and grammar in order to have good writing is known as

A triangle with all equal sides

Interruption that writers do to insert past events in order to provide background or context to the current events.

The geographic line between two places such as two countries.

A triangle having three unequal sides

Using words to explain so that the reader knows what you are talking about is know as

A forty-niner was a

The measurement system that measure length based on meters, liquid volume based on liters, and mass based on grams.

The moral or lesson learned from a story

To give up territory, usually the result of a treaty

area of land, usually for cattle, granted by Mexico to Spanish or Mexican Citizens in North America

A piece of writing to a specific person with a greeting, closing and signature.

A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story

An expedition is

To move over a few spaces to show you are starting a new paragraph is called

Collection of spoken or written words that expresses ideas or emotions in a powerfully vivid and imaginative style

Fiction that uses imagined characters and situations that either actually happened or are likely to happen in real life.