Week 1 Vocab
Where your evidence comes from.
What are sources?
Verified text that has been collected from the original source or document that supports a thesis or an argument, often appearing as a quotation or descriptive text.
What is textual evidence?
A word that refers to a thing, a person, an animal, a place, a quality, an idea, or an action.
What is a noun?
A word that indicates a physical action, a mental action, or a state of being.
What are verbs?
The first place Wonka takes his guests.
What is the Chocolate Room?
A rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect.
What is a hyperbole?
A type of communication that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning.
What is figurative language?
Any of a small set of words in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns.
What is a pronoun?
A word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence.
What are adverbs?
"I could eat a whole cow."
What is an example of a hyperbole?
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What are inferences?
Giving credit to the source of evidence for justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work.
What is a cite?
A word that describes, modifies or defines a noun or noun phrase.
What are adjectives?
A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.
What are conjunctions?
The number of candy bars that Charlie buys.
What is 4?
Interpreting or finding meanings and patterns in information.
What is an analysis?
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
A word or phrase that is grammatically independent from the words around it, and mainly expresses feeling rather than meaning. (From Week 2)
What are interjections?
A word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object.
What are prepositions?
"Typically", "always", "fully", "slightly".
What are examples of an adverb?