Grammar
A complete thought that can stand alone as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
Elements like headings, captions, and graphs that help organize information.
What are text features?
The difference between tone and mood is...
Tone is the author’s attitude; mood is how the reader feels.
Coach Effoc’s favorite football team
What are the 49ers?
A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza
A word that shows relationship between a noun/pronoun and another word (ex: under, through, beside).
What is a preposition?
Cause/Effect, Problem/Solution, Compare/Contrast, Sequence, Description.
What are the five main text structures?
The central message or lesson of a story.
What is theme?
Coach Effoc’s favorite soda
What is root beer?
The pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines.
What is rhyme scheme?
Phrases are...
What is A group of words without a subject and verb that acts as one part of speech. Not a complete sentence. A part of a sentence that can not be a complete sentence alone.
The main point an author wants to make about a topic.
What is a central idea?
Connotation is... Denotation is...
Denotation is the dictionary meaning; connotation is the emotional or cultural meaning.
Coach Effoc’s favorite conspiracy theory
What is “Who really built the Egyptians?”
Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
To introduce a list, explanation, or quotation after an independent clause.
When is a colon used?
The main claim or argument of an essay, usually found in the introduction.
What is a thesis statement?
The author’s reason for writing (to inform, entertain, or persuade).
What is the author’s purpose?
Event that Coach Effoc competed in at the University of Houston
What is the heptathlon?
A comparison saying one thing is another (without like or as).
What is a metaphor?
To join two related independent clauses or separate items in a complex list.
When should you use a semicolon?
To draw a conclusion using evidence from the text and your own reasoning.
What does it mean to make an inference? ss.
When the opposite of what’s expected happens, or there’s a contrast between appearance and reality.
What is irony?
Coach Effocs "best movie of all time"
What is Alvin and the Chipmunks (1)?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things.
What is personification?