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English
9th Grade
12/14/2011

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Expository Writing
Definition
A writing that informs or explains or describes
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Persuasive Writing
Definition
to convince someone about your beliefs
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Functional Writing
Definition
takes inofrmation and makes it useful for the reader
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Narrative Writing
Definition
tells a story fiction ot nonfictional
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Example of MLA header
Definition
Jiang1
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Example of Intext Citation
Definition
Jem found his pants folded across the fence(Lee).
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Topic Sentence
Definition
Tells what the paragraph is going to be about
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Support Details
Definition
Details to support main idea like examples
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Conluding Sentence
Definition
Wraps up what the paragraph talked about
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Tone of Voice
Definition
shows emotion and attitude
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Intended Audience
Definition
who you are writing to
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Figurative Language
Definition
Personification, similes, metaphors, idoms, etc
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Transitions
Definition
Words or phrases to smooth out flow
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Homonyms
Definition
Words that sound the same, but have different meanings
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Independent Clause
Definition
Subject and Verb and able to stand alone
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Dependent Clause
Definition
Subject and verb but not able to stand alone as a sentence
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Compound Sentence
Definition
Two independent clauses connected by coordinating conjuctions
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Complex sentence
Definition
Has one independent clause and one dependent clause
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Compound-Complex Sentence
Definition
Made by 2 independent clauses and 1 or more dependent clauses
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8 parts of speech
Definition
Verb, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection
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Run-on sentence
Definition
2 or more independent clauses with wrong punctuation
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comma-splice
Definition
two independent clauses connected by one comma
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fragment
Definition
broken, detached, or incomplete sentence
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What does the acronym FANBOYS mean?
Definition
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
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What is a simile?
Definition
A comparison between two thing using "like" or "as"
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What is a metaphor?
Definition
A comparison between two unlike things using "is"
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What is personification?
Definition
Giving non-living things human-like characteristics
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What format do we use when writing a paper?
Definition
MLA Format
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