Ms. Montgomery's Vocabulary
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- sentence fragment (359)
- a group of words that does not express a complete thought; may be missing a subject, predicate, or both.
- allusion (797)
- a reference to something well known from history, stories, or art
- narrative writing (802)
- A type of writing that tells about events or actions as they change over a period of time and often includes story elements such as character, setting, and plot
- double negatives (469)
- two negative words (such as "not") used in the same sentence
- sensory detail (804)
- language that appeals to the senses; important elements of descriptive writing
- homonyms (669)
- pairs of words that sound alike or are spelled alike are called homonyms
- bibliography (797)
- a list of the books, articles, and other sources used as references
- choice
- to pick
- context clue (799)
- The words and sentences that come before and after a specific word and help to explain its meaning
- primary sources (225)
- a source that is close to a project (ex- an interview with a person who lives on a farm would be a good primary source for a project on farms)
- compound subject (365)
- has two or more simple subjects that have the same predicate. The subjects are joined by and, or, or nor.
- comparative adverb (465)
- compares two actions
- homographs (669)
- words that are spelled alike, but the words have different meanings and may have different pronunciations
- conclusion (798)
- a restatement or summing up of the ideas in a composition
- comma (591)
- makes sentences easier to understand by signaling a pause or seperation between parts of a sentence
- compound predicate (365)
- has two or more simple predicates, or verbs, that have the same subjects
- appositive (797)
- a noun placed next to another noun to identify it or add information about it
- idiom (800)
- a word or phrase that has a special meaning different from its standard or dictionary meaning
- clauses (798)
- a group of words that has a subject and a predicate and that is used as part of a sentence
- verb (805)
- a word that expresses an action or a state of being and is necessary to make a statement
- compound word (665)
- joining words to make new words
- bias (797)
- a tendency to think a certain way
- word
- something that is said
- comparative adjective (797)
- compares two people, places, things, or ideas
- you (363)
- in a command, the subject is usually not stated, but the word "you" is understood to be the subject
- figurative language (800)
- words used for descriptive effect that express some truth beyond the literal level
- onomatopoeia (802)
- The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes
- list (801)
- a technique for finding ideas and writing
- complex sentence
- has one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses
- contraction (385)
- a word made by combining two words into one by leaving out one or more letters
- cliché (798)
- an overused expression (white as snow)
- audience (797)
- the person who reads or listens to what the writer or speaker says
- expository writing (800)
- a kind of writingn that aims at informing and explaning
- preposition (803)
- a word that shows the relationship or a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentences
- adverb (461)
- a word that modifies or describes a verb, and adjective, or another verb
- linking verb (405)
- connects the suubject of a sentence with a noun or an adjective in the predicate
- antonyms (667)
- words with opposite, or nearly opposite meanings
- adjective (797, 451)
- a word that modifies or describes a noun or a pronoun
- characterization (798)
- the methods a writer uses to develop the personality of a character
- indirect object (403)
- answers the question "to whom?" or "for whom?" an action is done
- declarative sentences (799)
- A sentence that makes a statement
- synonyms (649)
- a word that means the same, or basically the same, as another word
- descriptive writing (799)
- Writing that uses sensory detail to convey a dominant impression of, for example, a setting, a person, an animal, and so on.
- pronoun (803)
- a word that takes the place of a noun
- direct object (401)
- recieves the action of a verb; it answers the question whom? or what? after an action verb
- interjections (801)
- a word or phrase that expresses strong feeling
- Dewey Decimal System (634-365)
- a classification system; a way to organize books
- interrogative sentences (357)
- a sentence that asks a question
- simile (804)
- a figure of speech that compares two basically unlike things, using words such as like or as
- baseword (804)
- the part of the word that carries the main meaning
- colon (597)
- introduces a list of items that end in a sentence
- brainstorming (798)
- a group activity where people think of as many ideas that they can
- graphic organizers (800)
- a visual way of organizing information; types of graphic organizers are charts, graphs, clusters, and idea trees
- action verb (399)
- a word that names an action
- writer
- someone who writes
- main idea of paragraph (71)
- a topic that all of the sentences in a paragraph is based on