ela/reading 7 crct vocabulary review. 1. two or more independent clauses joined by a semicolon or...
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ELA/READING 7 CRCT VOCABULARY REVIEW
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Two or more independent clauses joined by a semicolon or coordinating conjunction
Ex. Louis will eat pizza, but Jan will have donuts.
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Two or more independent clauses joined by a semicolon or coordinating conjunction
Ex. Louis will eat pizza, but Jan will have donuts.
compound sentence
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The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in a group of words
Ex. Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
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The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in a group of words
Ex. Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Alliteration
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a word that describes a noun or pronoun Ex. Bill has a yellow car.
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a word that describes a noun or pronoun Ex. Bill has a yellow car.
adjective
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a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or adverb
Ex. Shawn is very athletic.
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a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or adverb
Ex. Shawn is very athletic.
adverb
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words under a graphic that tell what the graphic is about.
caption
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a group of words…. contains a subject and predicate (but does not express a complete thought) …functions as an adjective in a sentence
Ex. Shawn’s brother, who runs and swims, is very athletic.
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a group of words…. contains a subject and predicate (but does not express a complete thought)
Ex. Shawn’s brother, who runs and swims, is very athletic.
dependent clause
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the author’s attitude toward a subject
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the author’s attitude toward a subject
tone
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an organizational structure used for writing …recalls events in time order
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an organizational structure used for writing…presents the similarities and differences on a subject
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an organizational structure used for writing…shows why things happened and the results of what happened
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a sentence structure that contains a dependent clause and an independent clause
Ex. While Ana was at home, her sister went to the doctor.
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a sentence structure that contains a dependent clause and at least two independent clauses
Ex. Although I like to eat healthy foods, I sometimes will have a burger, and I also like to eat pizza.
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an expression that means something different than the actual words it uses
Ex. raining cats and dog
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a clause that contains a subject and a verb and can stand alone
Ex. Barbara lives on Juniper Street.
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an alphabetical list of names or topics and the page numbers where these subjects can be found in a written text
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an exaggeration for effect There were a million students in the
cafeteria line for lunch.
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a story with a moral….sometimes feature animals that talk
Ex. “The Tortoise and the Hare”… “The Fox and the Grapes”
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the main problem in a story the characters must solve
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a group of words that contains a subject and a predicate but that cannot stand alone
Ex. Shawn’s brother, who runs and swims, is very athletic.
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the sentence in a paragraph that sums up the paragraph’s main idea
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a comparison that does not use either like or as
Ex. The students were a rainbow of bright, shining faces
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certain feelings created in a reader caused by author’s word choice, setting, and character’s actions, thoughts, and dialogue
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two or more sentences written together without proper punctuation
Gia is a dancer she is also a singer.
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the use of words to stand for sounds Ex. boom, pow, buzz
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a sequence of events in a story
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an incomplete sentence that lacks either a subject, or a verb, or both
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the time and place of action in a story
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repeating words or phrases to make a point, or in a poem, a when a word/words occur over and over
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giving human traits to nonhuman things
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a lesson in a story as in a fable
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a comparison that uses either like or as Ex. crazy like a fox
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type of sentence that consists of only one independent clause.
Ex. Juno is a boy.
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word that shows action or state of being
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a word that helps ideas flow from one sentence to the next or from one paragraph to the next
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a broad or general idea or message an author wants to tell readers