English stuff
Acknowledging the points of the other side of an issue and then reaffirms your side of the argument.
What is counterclaim?
Conversation by 2 or more people in a text.
What is dialogue?
Information used to support an argument.
What is evidence?
Passage or quotation taken from a text.
What is an excerpt?
A scene in a text that takes the narrative back in time from the current point.
What is a flashback?
Also known as the thesis, theme, controlling idea, or main point.
What is the focus?
Newspaper or magazine articles that gives the opinions of the editors or publisher.
What is an editorial?
Process of making meaning from a text
What is interpretation?
Word, phrase or sentence at the beginning of a written passage that explains what it is about.
What is a heading?
Rules that govern the structure of both written and spoken language.
What is grammar usage?
The beginning that makes it clear to the reader what the purpose of the text is.
What is an introduction?
Also known as plot; this develops the story.
What is the logical sequence of events?
Literary device characterized by a struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict or tension?
Sentences that introduces the main argument or point of view of a compostion.
What is the controlling idea or thesis?
Literary device used commonly in literature where logical deductions are made based on the premises assumed to be true.
What is to infer or make an inference?
The telling of an actual or fictional event or connected sequence of events, sometimes recounted by a narrator.
What is a narrative?
Statement in which a writer presents an assertino as truthful.
To state something written or spoken in different words, usually shorter and simpler than the original.
What is to paraphrase?
A type of essay that helps people understand a topic.
What is an Explanatory or Informational essay?
Sequence of interconnected events within the story.
What is the plot?
Refers to the mind of the character through which the reader is told a story.
What is point of view or viewpoint?
The reason or intent in writing.
What is purpose?
The conclusion of the story by the ending of the conflict.
What is the resolution?
Words that link the readers to the five senses (touch, sight, smell, sound or taste).
What is sensory language?
Time and geographical location within a narrative.