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Tone and Style
Commonsense composition vocabulary
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7th Grade
04/08/2018
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Coherence:
 Definition
what makes a text stick together in a meaningful way.
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Tone:
 Definition
type of language or register used to communicate with an audience.
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Style:
 Definition
principle guiding how clearly we write.
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Subject:
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one of the two components of a clause; the one about with something is said.
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Sentence:
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a set of words that meets the requirements of grammar.
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Register:
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a variety of a language used for a specific purpose or in a particular situation.
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Referent:
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a term that refers to something already mentioned.
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Redundant:
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repetitive, with more information than is needed, excessive.
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Pronoun:
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a word that replaces a noun or noun phrase in a sentence (he, them, us, yourself, etc.).
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Audience:
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the targeted public.
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Canonical:
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basic; reduced to the simplest form, although still representative of a group.
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Predicate:
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the part of a sentence that says something about a subject.
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Phrase:
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a group of words that work as a single unit in a sentence.
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Nominalize:
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change into a noun.
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Gender bias:
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prejudice toward a certain gender.
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Emphasis:
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stress.
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Denotative:
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literal, explicit.
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Clause:
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a group of words with a subject and a predicate.
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Connotative:
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implied, suggested.
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Concision:
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the ability to express a great deal in a few words.
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Colloquial:
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informal, usually characteristic of conversation.
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Cohesion:
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the connections that hold a text together.
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