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What does Diction mean?
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
Fragment?
It expresses an incomplete thought and is not a sentence. It may be missing the subject, the verb, or any words needed to complete the thought.
What is wrong with Middy?
She doesn't have good teeth.
You can use ____________ clues such as restatements, synonyms, elaborating details, or contrasting ideas near the word you want to figure out the meaning of in a text you are reading.
Context
What can you do in los angeles.
What can you do in Los Angeles?
What does Mood Mean?
A temporary state of mind or feeling.
Complete Sentence?
It has a subject and a verb and it expresses a complete thought.
How much money was in the jar?
There was $77.35
“In most coming-of-age stories, the protagonist interacts with characters who do not share the same ____________________, or viewpoint. This contrast in perspectives may add to the _____________ the protagonist faces or highlight the nature of the changes he or she experiences” (p. 147).
Perspective; Conflict
the people walks there dogs at the park.
The people walk their dogs at the park.
What does Syntax mean?
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Run-on?
This results when two or more independent clauses are connected with proper punctuation or a conjunction.
What did Appleseed do every day until Christmas?
He claimed he counted the change in the jar by staring at it.
One method a writer may use to let you know they are shifting from present tense to a ___________, or “a scene from the past that interrupts the present action” (p.163) is by putting the text in __________, or setting it apart from the previous text with spacing.
Flashbacks; Italics
Chrissmas is for children. im not a child!
Christmas is for children. I'm not a child!
What does Allusion Mean?
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Complex- Sentence
One independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
Does Appleseed Buy anything at the store?
Nope, he never even looked around.
_____________ ___ ____ narratives often feature a protagonist who is a child or teenager who is maturing, learning more about the world and himself or herself, and growing or ______________during the course of the story
Coming of Age; Maturing
That movies ain't to scary for me.
That movie wasn't too scary for me.
What is Imagery?
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
Compound-Complex Sentence?
Two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clause
Who announced the winner of the silver jug? Also, who won?
Appleseed for both.
An _____________ ____________________ is “a kind of ‘conversation’ or dialogue” a character has within his or her own mind (p. 235).
Internal Monologue
Cards cant come alive like in alice and wonderland.
Cards can't come alive like in Alice and Wonderland.