Food for Thought

Terms	Definitions
&	ampersand
*	asterisk
anyway	without an "s" at the end
a lot	NEVER one word
FANBOYS	for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Types of Story Leads	Dialogue, Action, Description, Thinking
First Person	I'm a talented singer.
Second Person	You are a talented singer.
Third Person-Limited	Avery knew that she was a talented singer.
Third Person-Omniscient	Avery thought that she was a talented singer, and Lucas envied her because of it!
Declarative Sentence	The ceiling fan was made of mahogany.
Exclamatory Sentence	I just won two concert tickets!
Interrogative Sentence	Will you go to the dance with me?
Imperative Sentence	Take this suit to the dry cleaner's.
Prepositional Phrase	The cow jumped (over the moon).
Character v. Character	Peter Pan fights Captain Hook on a ship.
Character v. Nature	Farmer Brown and his family are forced to move to another state because a drought killed all of their crops.
Character v. Society	A young boy tries to overcome discrimination in his southern community in the 1960s.
Alliteration	Same SOUNDS: Frank found five phones.
Hyperbole	A gross exaggeration... "I've told you once...I've told you a thousand times!"
Personification	When human traits are given to something non-human Example: The moonlight danced in the shadows.
Character v. Self	A prince struggles to decide whether he should marry his lifelong friend or a famous queen.
Plot Stages	Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
Mollify	To soothe, to put at ease (Classical music mollifies me whenever I'm sitting in traffic.)
Titanic	Sank in 1912
...	Ellipsis: Singular Ellipses: Plural
(Hinton 6)	(LAST NAME then PAGE) = citing a book
IMPlicit	IMPlied ("Could you close the window?" to mean "It's chilly.")
Explicit	Directly said (So...just flat out saying, "It's chilly!")
Topic	A subject or idea in a word (Example: Love)
Theme	A developed, recurring (repeated) topic (Example: Love is unavoidable.)
Comma Splice	Example: Schools are great, teachers are friendly.
Run-On Sentence	Example: Schools are great teachers are friendly so are seniors.
Subjective Sally would say...	"Texas has A LOT of people."
Objective Oscar would say...	"Texas has about 25 million people."
Conviction	Confidence
Robert Fulton	Invented the steamboat
Alexandar Graham Bell	Invented the telephone
Perfect Ed	Present Perfect = Have/Has + verb(ed)* *Usually Example: Ms. O'Brien HAS purchasED a flower pot.
Present Progressive	AM/IS/ARE + verb(ing) Example: Ms. O'Brien IS typING an essay.
Didactic	Teachy, sermonizing
Rhetorical Question	Do you know what it means not to answer a question?
Pathos	Emotion (Remember...Pathos = Passion = Emotion)
Maître D'	Hand him your coat in a restaurant!
Appositives	Rename nouns and are found between commas Example: My dog, a golden retriever, is loyal.
Implicit	IMPlicit = IMPlied, indirect, hinted at Example: "Could you close the window?" to mean "It's cold in this room."
Explicit	Explicit = directly said, just plain said aloud Example: "It's cold in this room."
Skeleton Sentence	Subject, Verb Examples: 1. The cat ate a small mouse. 2. The cyclist biked across Utah. Skeleton Sentences : 1. Cate ate 2. Cyclist biked
The Understood You	The subject of imperative sentences (You) Finish your homework.
VP Debate	Paul Ryan, Joe Biden
-ology	Suffix: the study of
Order of college degrees	Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate
Pathos	Passion/Emotion
Ethos	Charisma, "Like-ability"
Former, latter	First, then the other option Example: "Do you want to go the football game or the choir concert?" "The latter!" (meaning to choir concert)
ProfeSSor	Spelled with TWO S's (think double the money...$$...two S's)
PrinciPAL	the person
PrinciPLE	the concept
Passive Voice	The fire was put out by the firemen.
Active Voice	The firemen put out the fire.
Female Symbol	Nurse sign...female...
Male symbol	Arrow...hunter...
Mischievous	Pronounced miss-chi-vuss (NOT miss-chee-vee-uss)
Et al.	"and others" So...if three authors co-write an article you'd cite their article like this: The research study proves that will-power is indeed "measurable on multiple levels" (Brown et al 7).
Purple Prose	An overly wordy way of saying something!
Surrealism	An art movement that featured irrational/illogical objects (i.e. melting clocks)
C.I.A.	Connotation is association Example: Coffee, wooden chairs, and the feeling of relaxation are connotations that come to mind when I think of my grandmother's house.
Denotation	Dictionary Definition Example: The denotation for love would be.... the feeling of closeness between two people. (However, things like chocolate, cupids, and flowers are connotations of love.)
Left-handed compliment	It's half compliment, half insult... "You run fast...for a girl!" "You look beautiful - today!"
Pariah	A social outcast. An outlier.
Conform	To follow...to go along with
Kleptomaniac	Someone who chronically steals!
Anecdote	A short, amusing story (Example: Mrs. Schauff's quick tale about her friend and first-world problems)
Salvador Dalí	Crazy moustaches. The Persistance of Memory. Surrealist Spanish painter.
Anaphora	Repeated words at the beginning of consecutive phrases. Example: "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country." -Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, 1940
Primary Colors	Red, Blue, Yellow
Secondary Colors	Green, Orange, Violet
To conform	to follow what everyone is doing
Miranda rights	"You have the right to remain silent, and anything you say can be used against you."
Pleading the 5th	Choosing not to say anything
Using brackets when quoting a text...	CORRECT: Pony went to bed early because "[he] had not slept in two days" (Hinton 5). INCORRECT: Pony went to bed early because "I had not slept in two days" (Hinton 5).
1963	Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
AM and PM	Ante Meridian and Post Meridian
Ms. O'Brien	REALLY enjoys teaching at Arbor Creek because her students are so golden hearted!
To be or not to be, that is the question	Hamlet
Shakespeare's 3 play types	Histories, tragedies, comedies
Tragedies	The major characters die in the end
Antony & Cleopatra	Don't shoot the messenger
Misplaced Modifier	I keep a binder of parents I have met in my bookshelf. (Wrong) In my bookshelf, I keep a binder of parents I have met. (Right)
Dangling Modifier	When only a toddler, my mom took me to the zoo. (Wrong) My mom took me to the zoo when I was a toddler. (Right)
P.I.E.	Pieces are written to persuade, inform, or entertain
P.A.M.	To analyze writing, think of its purpose, audience, and message
Faux	Fake
Curmudgeon	A grouch!
Accentuate	Emphasize (Accentuate the positive. Eliminate the negative.)
Interview Attire	Ladies: Closed-toed shoes, conservative colors, hair tied back Guys: Tie, pressed pants, polished shoes
Don't forget to say...	"Put mine in the good stack!" (resume reference)
After an interview....	Only stand once your interviewer has stood up and has shaken your hand. Make sure to send your interviewer a follow-up thank you email.
Point of concession	A remark that acknowledges an opposing point
Alum vs. Alumni	Alum = singular Alumni = plural
(Homecoming) Mum	short for chrysanthemum
Ruby Bridges	The first black girl to attend an all-white school in the South
Squirrel	2 front teeth.... 2 r's 1 long tail .... 1 L
Loose vs. Lose	XXL hoodie is big/lOOse
A gallon of milk!	8 fluid ounces = 1 cup 1 pint = 2 cups 1 quart = 2 pints 1 gallon = 4 quarts
Andy Warhol
Business Casual: Females
Business Casual: Males
Andy Warhol	"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." Pop Art Campbell's soup cans painting
Palindrome	Race car (same forwards and backwards)
Wise words	Accentuate the positive; eliminate the negative.
Romantic Languages (S.I.F.)	Spanish, Italian, and French They are romantic because of their Latin origins.
Sororities	For girls
Fraternities	For boys
Schwa (pronounced SHWAH)	ə The "uh" sound...like in umbrella, amazing, or utter
Never forget...	Don't just survive...thrive!
You haven't failed....	You just haven't succeeded yet!
Ominous	means threatening and sinister
Adjectives	Describing words. They modify NOUNS and PRONOUNS.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)	Started the New Deal (Relief, Recover, and Reform) to help lift Americans out of the Great Depression. Had polio. Almost always photographed from the waist up to cover up his illness.
The Dust Bowl	In the Great Plains. Caused by drought and eroded soil. New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
Dorothea Lange's famous photo, Migrant Mother
Mt. Rushmore (WJTA)	In South Dakota. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
Andy Warhol	"fifteen minutes of fame" pop art Campbell's soup cans Marilyn Monroe piece
Theodore Roosevelt	26th American President. In office during the building of the Panama Canal.
Past Perfect	HAD + (-ed)verb* *usually He HAD closED the door.
Pandora's Box	Curiosity killed the cat...
Narcissism	Having an inflated image of yourself...it's always about you and never anyone else...having too much self-esteem!
Homophone	Too, to, two Their, there, they're (same sound, different spelling)
Murphy's Law	If anything can go wrong, it WILL go wrong!
Contentious	Controversial
Gerunds	end in -ING...they are NOUNS Examples: ReadING is fun. Playing hockey is challenging.
If you are reading this right now...	way to go for studying!
Heirloom	A valuable family treasure that is handed down from generation to generation
Elixir	A (supposedly) magical or medicinal potion ... a "cure-all" drink
Palindromes	Are spelled the same forwards and backwards (like taco cat, race car)
Achilles' Heel	A weakness
Armageddon	The final battle/struggle
Carrying coals to Newcastle	Needlessly bringing something
Crocodile tears	Pretend tears
Cross the Rubicon	To make a big, permanent decision
Catch-22	A decision that leaves you feeling crushed no matter what you choose!
To cry wolf	To keep giving "false alarms"
Hobson's choice	An all-or-nothing decision
Pyrrhic victory	A victory made with some loss
Parkinson's Law	It will take you however long you THINK the task will take you.
Ephemeral (adj.)	Temporary (remember Little Frog who was Big Frog...but only ephemerally?)
Halcyon (adj.)	The good ol' days...the carefree days
Posthumous	occurring AFTER one's death (Americans appreciated the poet's writing AFTER the poet had died, so the poet gained POSTHUMOUS success.)
Wit	Comical cleverness
Present participle	an -ING adjective before a noun Example: The singING girls are blonde. Example: The runnING buys are fast!
The Great Lakes	HOMES: Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior
Mollycoddle	To treat in an overly protective manner
Sagacious	Showing good judgment; clever; wise
Learn to spell...	NickEL and pickLE
Textual parallels are....	similarities between written works
William Tell Overture	The opera: To get out of being executed by the ruler of Austria, William Tell had to shoot an apple on top of his sons head. He succeeded!
Rossini	Write the William Tell Overture
Australia	Know how to spell it!
Apex	means "the highest point" (The APEX of his career was being promoted to CEO.)