VOCABULARY
A punctuation mark used to separate independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet) or listing items of three or more.
What is a COMMA?
Fiction Genres.
Nonfiction Genres.
Drama Genres.
Poetry Genres
What are THE FOUR MAIN GENRES OF LITERATURE?
When the narrator or author expresses emotions, attitude, tone and point of view through artful use of words.
What is VOICE?
Non-verbal elements that convey ideas, information, and data like photos, videos, graphs, typography, charts, maps, illustrations, and so much more.
What is VISUAL COMMUNICATION?
To produce an idea or way of solving a problem. Often done in group discussions
What is BRAINSTORM?
A group of words that conveys a complete idea that must have a subject and a verb, and also starts with a capital letter and ends with terminal punctuation.
What is a COMPLETE SENTENCE?
Examples:
Poetry, Essay, Letter, Biography, Short-Story, Narrative
What are LITERATURE GENRES?
The process of drawing a conclusion from supporting evidence.
What is INFERENCE?
The process of exchanging information or messages through written words.
What is WRITTEN COMMUNICATION?
A category or a composition, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is GENRE?
Highlighting key concepts to a passage, article or instruction.
What is ANNOTATE?
The classification of a literary work by its form, content, and style into categories such as poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction.
What is GENRE?
A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding.
What is APOSTROPHE?
Effectively presenting your thoughts in verbal format (like by talking).
What is VERBAL COMMUNICATION?
A phrase or part of a sentence with a missing part for the writer to fill in.
What is a SENTENCE STEM?
Formal word choices that are very specific and proper
What is DICTION?
Examples:
Pop, R&B, Tejano, Jazz, Country, Metal, Techno
What are MUSIC GENRES?
Stories of people captured by enemies whom they consider uncivilized, or whose beliefs and customs they oppose.
What is CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES?
The active process of receiving and responding to spoken (and sometimes unspoken) messages.
What is LISTENING?
A part of every sentence. The subject tells what the sentence is about; it contains the main noun or noun phrase.
What is a SUBJECT?
Forecasting an idea.
What is PREDICTION?
Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Horror, Western, Documentary, Comedy
What are MOVIE GENRES?
When writing an essay, research paper, term paper, thesis, or dissertation, you should indent every paragraph at 0.5 inches from the left of the margin?
What is INDENT?
Transfer of information from one person to another without the use of words or spoken language.
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
The part of a sentence or clause that tells us what the subject is or what it does; the action.
What is a PREDICATE?