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Cards (89)

  • Song
    a poem that is usually set to music or made for chanting
  • jazzchant
    is an upbeat chant or a simple poem that uses rhythms, natural stress and intonation patterns of convertional amerian english
  • 4 beats
    how many beats does jazzchant have
  • prior knowledge
    the sum of experiences,culture,and knowledge that a reader bring in to the text
  • schema
    the repository of information in your brain
  • brain storming
    a effective way to activate your prior knowledge
  • natural word order
    the subject comes before the verb
  • inverted
    the subject comes after the verb
  • natural
    two english classes are scheduled for the 9th grade
  • inverted
    up the hill pedaled the road racer
  • inverted
    off the diving board she leaped with a smooth motion
  • natural
    tood has been walking to the park after school
  • style
    the language is used by the writer
  • journalistic writing
    uses more compact, straight forward style
  • didactic literature
    peaceof literary writing which aim to instict religious, moral, or political doctrimes
  • sermon
    a dictatic speech taht promotes moral religious values
  • clipping
    A process in word formation that "clips" and shortens the word
  • gas
    gasoline
  • prof
    professor
  • dorm
    dormitories
  • interjection
    word or phases that expresses strong emotion such as happiness, sadness, suprise, pain or hate
  • sonnet
    a traditional literary form that grow to prominence in the elizabethan era.
  • petrarchan
    An octive( eight - line stanza) and setset( 6-line stanza)
  • thomas wyatt
    starting out as an italian form popularized by one of the early sonnet master, francesco petrarch, the sonnet was brought to england by
  • shakespearean and spenserian
    three quantrain( 4 - line - stanza) and finish with an declamtion or heroic couplet( pair of line)
  • meter
    regular pattern of stress and un-stress syllable in a poetry
  • feet
    unit of meassurement of meter
  • Iamb
    1 un-stress and 1 stressed syllable
  • trochee
    1 stress and 1 un-stress
  • spondee
    2 stressed syllable
  • dactyl
    start with a stress syllable followed by 2 un-stressed syllable
  • anapest
    like a reverse dactyl with two un-stress followed by one stressed syllable
  • intimate
    it refers to communicate with someone you love, it may be your papent, relative, friends or aquaitance.
  • Alliteration
    encountered when constant sound or words within the initial of stressed syllables have the same sound
  • Consonance
    usually uses repitition of a particular consonant sound
  • sentence
    words combinations ontaining a subject and verb and having a complete thought.
  • fragments
    are word groups that typically lack the completeness of sentences.
  • clause
    word combinations containing a subject and a verb
  • phrases
    fragments that do not contain verbs.
  • clause
    During the rainstorm, the children were frightened by the thunder