Lit Comp II Vocabulary
To give your opinion of the value of a subject and discuss its good and bad points, strengths, and weaknesses
What is "evaluate"?
They communicate messages to audiences (stories, songs, photographs, videos, etc..).
What are texts?
An article explains how increased screen time leads to sleep problems and lower academic performance. This organization shows a _______ text structure.
What is cause and effect?
In a novel meant to criticize social inequality, the main conflict centers on a character struggling against unfair laws rather than nature or chance. This shows how conflict is shaped by the author’s _______.
What is purpose?
The strategy of putting the ideas of someone else (e.g., author, speaker) into different words. This action is typically done to demonstrate understanding of the content and to provide clarity to the audience.
What is paraphrasing?
This trait examines the writer’s ability to construct a coherent, and focused text.
What is purpose and organization?
The environment in which a text is situated or produced. The writing situation or circumstances and includes anything that impacts the text.
What is context?
A text explains similarities and differences between traditional schooling and online learning. This organization uses a _______ text structure.
What is compare and contrast?
A story opens in the middle of the action, then uses flashbacks to explain how the characters arrived at that moment, before moving forward to the resolution. This organization is an example of a _______ plot structure.
What is In Media Res?
Brief references within the main body of the composition that direct readers to the source of the information.
What are citations?
This trait examines the writer’s ability to conduct research using well-chosen information from multiple sources.
What is evidence and elaboration?
The strong effect a novel’s language has on how readers think or feel about a character is its _______.
What is mood?
An article explains the features, characteristics, and details of a tropical rainforest without showing change or solving a problem. This is an example of a _______ text structure.
What is descriptive text structure?
The literary methods a writer uses to craft elements of a story (e.g., plot, dialogue, setting, theme, style, and characters); they are overarching approaches or strategies authors use when storytelling.
What is narrative techniques?
The strategy of developing and providing a brief overview of the essential (“big picture”) ideas in a text.
What is summarize or summary?
The implied, emotional, or cultural meaning of a word, in contrast to the literal, dictionary definition of a word.
What is connotation?
An ______ is an individual or group of people who engage with texts for their own reasons, interpret the texts according to their own knowledge bases and experiences, and put the texts to work to accomplish their own purposes
Who is audience?
A writer describes a character as having “deafening silence.” This combination of contradictory terms is an example of a(n) _______.
What is an oxymoron?
Facts: Facts are something objectively known to be true; no interpretation should occur with facts.
Statistics: Statistics are facts in number form.
Testimony: Testimony is a formal written or spoken statement.
Text: Specific examples from the text that can be used to support an idea are a type of evidence. Textual evidence can include summarized, paraphrased, or directly quoted information.
Data: Data is a collection of facts and/or statistics that are compiled for reference and/or analysis
What is expository techniques?
According to MLA guidelines, which example below accurately uses parenthetical citation to cite a paraphrased idea from a book written by Alex Leslie titled The Joy of Quilt Making?
A. Strengthening your fingers is required in order to hand stitch farming quilts (Leslie 132).
B. "Strengthening your fingers is required in order to hand stitch farming quilts" (Leslie p 132).
C. Strengthening your fingers is required in order to hand stitch farming quilts (132).
D. "Strengthening your fingers is required in order to hand stitch farming quilts" (The Joy of Quilt Making).
What is "A"?
A. Strengthening your fingers is required in order to hand stitch farming quilts (Leslie 132).
A sound device where harsh or discordant sounds are used for a specific purpose when crafting text.
What is cacophony?
When a social media post blends entertainment with advertising by promoting products while appearing to be personal content, students are identifying _______ influencing the message.
What are commercial influences?
When a speaker uses professional language, avoids personal anecdotes, and maintains an objective voice during a presentation, they are using a _______ style.
What is a formal style?
A defensible thesis, supportive claims, credible evidence, opposing claims, rebuttals, logical lines of reasoning, and/or a compelling conclusion.
What is argumentative techniques?
Students should integrate paraphrased, summarized, and ____________ material into original texts in various ways for intended purposes that strengthen writing, citing the sources of ideas in Modern Language Association (MLA) format.
What is quoted?