Vocab Words
consume?
What is eat, drink, or ingest (food or drink). or buy (goods or services).
Which is the correct complex sentence structure?
a. one independent clause. b. one dependent clause
c. and independent clause and a dependent clause
d. a simple sentence with a subject and a verb
What is and independent clause and a dependent clause.
Using words to engage the five senses, creating mental pictures in your mind...
What is imagery?
When you use details or evidence in a text to draw a conclusion, you .
What is making inference?
The conclusion followed by the claims or reasons.
diffident?
What is modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence.
Which are correctly written complex sentences?
a. When I was a baby, my dad was in the army.
b. Although I was tired.
c. An adjective describes a noun.
d. A proper noun needs to be capitalized.
What is When I was a baby, my dad was in the army.
Comparing two different things using the words like or as:
What is simile?
When you "read between the lines" you
What is make an educated guess about things that aren't written down.
True or False? Evidence and reasoning are the same thing.
what is false?
berate?
What is scold or criticize (someone) angrily
Identify what kind of sentence it is below:
"She dropped the plate, and her food tumbled down to the floor."
What is not complex?
Giving human traits to non-living things..
a. metaphor
b. imagery
c. simile
d. personification
What is personification?
It is snowing. Your friend Justina is coming to sleep over. She texts you that she's on her way but will be late.
What is the best inference you could make?
What is Traffic is slow due to the weather.
the writer's central position/stance on a topic
What is a claim?
abrasive?
What is showing little concern for the feelings of others; harsh or (of a substance or material) capable of polishing or cleaning a hard surface by rubbing or grinding.
Although they found the newspaper interesting, they didn't read it all.
What is complex sentence?
Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities
What is symbols?
Terrence is camping alone. It is dry and windy out. He falls asleep in his sleeping bag near the blazing campfire.
What is the best inference you could make?
What is The fire may spread.
address opposing viewpoints
What is counterargument?
dissuade?
What is persuade (someone) not to take a particular course of action.
Unless you are going to graduate you will not need to apply for your diploma. Where does the comma belong?
a. between unless and you. b. between graduate and you
c. between not and need. d. this complex sentence does not need a comma.
What is between graduate and you.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
The last 3 lines are an example of
What is repetition?
Ellen felt the warm sunlight hit her face. She rolled over in bed, feeling unusually well-rested. But she knew it was a weekday. When she blinked her eyes and saw “9:00 am” on the clock, she shouted, “Oh nooooooo!” So she jumped out of bed, dressed as fast as she could, brushed her teeth in a flash and grabbed her backpack on the way out of the house.
What can you infer from the passage?
What is Ellen slept longer than usual and is late.
___________is the proof from credible sources used to support the writer's claims.
a.claim
b. counter claim
c. argument
d. evidence
what is evidence?