Unit 7 Vocabulary
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22 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 neuro | nerve |
| ten | hold |
| extra | beyond |
| pro | for |
| se | apart |
| pater | father |
| mis | bad |
| terr | land |
| peri | around |
| ambi | both` |
| inference | logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience |
| drawing conclusions | a decision that you reach after you think about the details and facts |
| making predictions | using clues from what you know or the text to make a good guess about what might happen next. |
| author's purpose | The reason the author has for writing. ( Inform, persuade, express, & entertain) |
| author's mood | Feeling created by the essay or article |
| author's tone | How the author feels about what he/she is writing about |
| tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author |
| mood | the overall emotion created by a work of literature |
| analogy | a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way |
| imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |
| envision | to picture in the mind; to imagine the places, people, and events in a piece of writing |
| Cause and Effect | The reason something happens and the result of it happening. |
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