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Drag Along Sheet Flashcards

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Word choice

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Diction

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Error in which two sentences are joined without punctuation

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Fused

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Error in which two sentences are joined with only a comma

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Comma splice

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Error: no comma with a FANBOY joining independent clauses

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Comma error

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5
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Using sentences with different lengths and beginnings

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Variety

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Writing that explains something, describes, or gives information

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Exposition

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Statement that appears to contradict itself but has meaning

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Paradox

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Literary term for making fun of something with the intention of positive change

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Satire

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9
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Whether a pronoun is first, second, or third

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Person

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10
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By order of time

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Chronological

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Little story added to your writing to make it more interesting

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Anecdote

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12
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Sentence that organizes essays includes paragraph topics

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Thesis

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13
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Poetry about emotions

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Lyric

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Poetry that tells a story

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Narrative

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15
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Words like however, therefore, consequently

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Conjunctive adverbs

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16
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14 line poem

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Sonnet

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17
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Whether a pronoun is masculine or feminine

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Gender

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18
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Noun that comes beside the noun and renames it

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Appositive

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19
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Something that is out of place in its time period

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Anachronism

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20
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Whether a pronoun is singular or plural

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Number

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21
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Am, is, are, was, were,

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Linking verbs

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22
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What can follow a linking verb?

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Predicate noun and predicate adjective

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23
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Bubba hit me the ball

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S+V+IO+DO

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24
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Opposites combine to form a meaning

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Oxymoron

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25
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Group of words

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Phrase

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26
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Group of words with a subject and predicate

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Clause

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27
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Verbal that is to + a verb

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Infinitive

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Verbal that ends in ING or ED and used as an adjective

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Participle

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Verbal that ends in ING and used as a noun

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Gerund

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Type of conjunction that uses FANBOYS

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Coordinating

31
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Type of conjunction that uses because, after, until, if, and since

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Subordinating

32
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Pronouns like whom, who, whose, which, and that and begin with dependent clauses

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Relative

33
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Noun function that follows linking verb and renames subject

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Predicate noun

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I, we, you, he, she, it, they

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Subject pronouns

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Me, us, you, him, her, it, them

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Objective pronouns

36
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Sentence type with one independent and one or more dependent clauses

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Complex

37
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Sentence type with two or more independent and one or more independent

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Compound complex

38
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Sentence type with two or more independent clauses

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Compound

39
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Point of view in which author tells us what the characters are thinking

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Omniscient

40
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Subject is doer of action

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Active voice

41
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Subject receives the action

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Passive voice

42
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Literary term for exaggeration for effect

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Hyperbole

43
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Type of irony in which you know something the character doesn’t

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Dramatic

44
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Type of irony in which something unexpected happens

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Situational

45
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Literary term for less direct way of saying things passed away

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Euphemism

46
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Words no longer used in our language

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Archaic

47
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Affect or effect

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Effect is the noun and affect is the verb

48
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When you count something, do you use less or fewer?

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Fewer

49
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Between or among

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Between is for two and among is three or more people

50
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Dictionary meaning of the word

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Denotation

51
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Emotional meaning of a word

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Connotation

52
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Reference to something famous

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Allusion

53
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Literary term for sound words

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Onomatopoeia

54
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Overused expression

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Cliché

55
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Unnecessary repetition in your writing

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Redundant

56
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Play on multiple meaning words of homophones

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Pun

57
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Whether a verb is past, present, or future?

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Tense

58
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Something concrete that stands for something abstract

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Symbol

59
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Universal symbol in all cultures and all times

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Archetype

60
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Repeated symbol

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Motif

61
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Literary term for how the speaker feels about his subject

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Tone

62
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Life lesson in a piece of literature

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Theme

63
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Group of words that doesn’t mean what it literally says

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Idiom

64
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Syntax term that refers to structural similarity between parts of a sentence

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Parallel structure

65
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Negative futuristic society

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Dystopia

66
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Literary term for placing things side-by-side for comparative purposes

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Juxtaposition

67
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Literature about the end of the world

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Apocalyptic

68
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Type of literature

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