The word, phrase, or clause referrred by a pronoun.
What is an antecedent?
100
The opposite of loose sentence, a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause in the end.
What is periodic sentence?
100
A type of metonymy in which a part is substitued for the whole.
What is synecdoche?
100
using specific examples to illustrate an idea.
What is example or illustration?
100
When you make sure a reader understands the words that you use. Explain a key term
What is definition?
200
A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
200
The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.
What is syntax?
200
A shorthamd method for giving readers detailed information about where the author found specific material used in the passage.
What is a footnote?
200
When you divide up whatever you have into groups according to certain charactersitics.
What is classification?
200
This mode can help make expository or argumentative writing lively and interesting and hold the reader's interest. Typically used to communicate a scene, a specific place, or a person to the reader.
What is description?
300
It expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
300
expresses a wish, a desire, a command.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
300
A story or brief episode told by the writer or a character to illustrate a point.
What is an anecdote?
300
When you note the similarities and the differences.
What is comparison and contrast?
300
A story in which pieces of information are arranged in chronological order.
What is narration?
400
It cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is an dependent (subordinate)clause?
400
This type of sentence asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
400
a single assertion or a series of assertions presented and defended by the writer.
What is an argument?
400
A modes that's used by writers when they want to explain either how to do something or how something is done.
What is process analysis?
400
A process in which specific examples are used to reach a general conclusion.
What is Induction?
500
A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as a phrases and clauses.
What is loose sentence?
500
Makes a factual statement.
What is a declarative sentence?
500
Indicated by a series of three periods; this indicates that some material has been omitted.
What is an ellipsis?
500
Explains why thins should be or should have been done.
What is Cause and effect?
500
Involves the use of generalization to draw a conclusion about a specific case. The opposite of induction