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These are clues that can be found within a sentence that help you understand what a word means...
Context Clues
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This is the category under which Prefixes and Suffixes fall. The definition is "words at the beginning or end of a word in order to change the meaning of the word."
Affixes
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What does (GPA) represent?
an Initialism
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Considering how two things are different
Contrasting
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Setting is both _______ and ________
Time and Place
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Using "Like" or "As" to compare two things
Metaphor
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A word created by combining the first letters from a series of words. They actually create a new word.
Acronyms
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This is what you do when you consider how two things are "similar"
Compare
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This is the good guy in a story.
Protagonist
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Different types of Literature is called ___________. This is the "category" they are called.
Genre
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This is the literal meaning of a word
Denotation...or "denotative" meaning
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Add a suffix to the end of this root word to change the word: Create
Creation, Creating, Created, Creator,
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These are visual representations of ideas
Graphic organizers
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This is the bad guy in a story
Antagonist
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The writer's attitude toward his or her subject or characters
Tone
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A comparison between pairs of words
Analogy
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Give a "prefix" to change the meaning of the root word: "do"
REdo
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Organize events in chronological order
timeline
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Give the definition for "Main Idea"
What the passage is mostly about. Why the author wrote the passage.
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What is plot? You can give the definition! :D
The sequence of events that happen in a story.
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That is the COOLEST looking car I've ever seen. Is the word "Coolest" in this sentence used in a denotative or a connotative way? WHY?
Connotative. They are putting an emotion behind the word instead of using it's correct denotative (or dictionary) meaning.
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What is the root of a word? Give the definition.
The basic element of a word...it forms the meaning of a word.
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Give the four "Purposes" for writing....
Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Express (PIEE)
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A _____ is why something happens. An ________ is what happens because of that ______.
A "cause" is why something happens. An "effect" is what happens because of that "cause."
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Okay....describe each type of point of view! You can do it!!!!!
First person (I, We....character is the narrator) Second person (You...someone is giving directions) Third Person (God point of view, narrator outside of the story) Limited=only know the thoughts and feelings of one character......Omniscient= know thoughts and feelings of all characters.
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