Vocabulary
A fact or condition connected with or relevant to an event or action.
Circumstance
An individual in a literary work of fiction, drama, or narrative poetry.
Character
To restate the text in your own words
Paraphrase
Verb form that is usually preceded by the word "to" and functions as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb in a sentence.
Infinitive
In this voice, the subject is performing an action.
Active Voice
A medical doctor specializing in pathology, the study of disease.
Pathologist
Details that appeal to your sense of sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste.
Sensory Details
To judge or decide whether or not the detail suggests a larger key idea.
Evaluate
Verb form that functions as a noun in a sentence.
Gerund
Used in news reports and scientific articles
Passive Voice
a feeling of concern or sorrow for someone else's misfortune or distress.
Sympathy
To create images in your mind based on the descriptions in the text.
Vizualize
Perspective that is not based on a factual or logical analysis, but instead represents someone's opinion.
Subjective
Verb form that functions as an adjective in a sentence.
Participle
In this voice, the subject is now being acted upon by the verb.
Passive Voice
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
Empathy
The moment in which the conflict, or main problem, is introduced.
Inciting Incident
Perspective without inserting your own feelings and opinions.
Objective
The order or pattern that a writer uses to structure and present ideas or events.
Organizational Structure
Which type of voice is being used in this example?
Is Anna visiting us today?
Active Voice
Succeed in persuading or influencing someone to do something.
Induce
Occurs when a key event or decision leads
Turning Point
Text structure is where authors present information about events or steps in a process, in the order in which they took or have taken place.
Sequential Order
Style of writing that intends to convince readers of an author’s position or point of view on a subject.
Argumentative writing
Which type of voice is being used in this example?
The meeting was called off.
Passive Voice