Syntax
This involves using the same grammatical pattern to express equal ideas within a sentence.
What is parallel structure?
This type of vocabulary is domain or field specific. These terms are specific to fields like biology, math, and English.
What is disciplinary vocabulary?
MLA is the abbreviated name of which style guide?
Modern Language Association
This refers to the circumstances or background surrounding a text. It includes factors like the time period and the cultural atmosphere.
What is context?
Texts are structured in different ways to help author's achieve their purpose. This organization structure focuses on directions or steps of a process.
What is sequential order?
The teacher advised us to study diligently, complete our assignments on time, and ________ in class discussions.
What is participate?
These are the basic building blocks of words from which other words are formed. They carry the core meaning of a word and often originate from Latin or Greek.
What are root words?
You must include these two elements in an in-text citation for a book with one author.
What is author's last name and page number?
(Smith 45)
This is the time period in which a text is produced. It can affect themes, language, and reception.
What is historical context?
This is a specific category within a mode that has its own style and structure. You find these within descriptive, expository, narrative, and persuasive modes.
What is genre?
Verb tense occurs in these three forms.
What is past tense, present tense, and future tense?
This is placed at the beginning of a root word and typically alters its meaning by adding a specific idea, such as a direction.
What is a prefix?
You must include these elements in an in-text citation for a source with three or more authors.
What is the first author's last name, et a., and page number?
(Smith et al. 26)
John Green wrote a novel titled Turtles All the Way Down. This context reflects Green's battles with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
What is personal context?
The purpose is the reason why you are writing. These are the four common purposes.
What is to inform, to persuade, to entertain, and to describe?
In this voice, the subject of the sentence performs the action expressed by the verb. The pattern is straight forward: subject --> verb --> object
What is active voice?
This is the literal dictionary definition meaning of a word. They are straightforward and factual, without any emotional or cultural associations.
What is denotation?
This is the difference between paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting.
What is restating the words of another person in your own words?
What is putting the original author's main idea into your own words?
What is using the exact words of the original author?
An author who writes a novel incorporating scientific reasoning and literary symbolism. This author also studies nuclear physics. This context applies.
What is disciplinary context?
This text structure is used when details are presented as they are located in a certain place, such as describing the layout of a room from left to right.
What is spatial order?
Descriptive writing often uses these five things to help readers visualize or experience the topic of the writing.
What is sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell?
This involves recognizing subtle differences in the meanings of words, especially when they describe varying intensities of emotions or actions.
EX: annoyed, angry, furious
What is nuance?
These are the required elements (in correct order) for a MLA citation for a book with one author.
**A full citation is placed in the MLA Works Cited page.
What is Last Name, First Name. Book Title. Publisher, Year.
EX: Smith, John. The Impact of Technology on Society. Penguin, 2020.
Lowry is influenced by this context.
What is disciplinary context? OR
What is literature?
This is the framework of a five paragraph essay.
What is introduction, body with supporting evidence, and conclusion?