PERIODICAL EXAM REVIEWER: ENGLISH

• Nonfiction - regardless of the subject matter, has a simple goal: to provide information.
• Expository - This essay or speech explains an idea or topic.
• Argumentative - this essay or speech attempts to convince the reader to take a certain stand on an issue.
• Imperative - is used to convey a request or a command.
• Subjunctive - is used to express doubt or to convey a wish.
• Indicative - is used to make factual statements.
• Hook - To capture the attentio of your audience.
• Claim - once you have engaged your audience fully, you can state your claim—the main idea or argument of your speech.
• Body - you will comprehensively explain your claim.
• End - You will draw logical, sensible conclusions that arose from the bodg of reasoning and evidence that you represented.
• Biographical sketch - are booklength narratives that present the details of a person's life.
• Personal – This essay or speech reveals the author’s life, exploits, mindsets, and emotions.
• Setting - includes time and place in which the story taking place.
• Characters - are people or animals who are featured in a story.
• Conflict- in a story is the main challenge to overcome by the main character.
• Rising action- challenges, conflicts and complications are introduced during the rising action segment.
• Exposition- it provides the necessary background information like setting and characters details
• Plot - the plot is the sequence of events that tell the story
• Falling action - the falling action, tension starts to dissolve.
• Resolution - it gives a sense of closure to the reader.
• Climax - this is the turning point of the story where the tensions in the plot line come to head.
• Theme - is the the central idea of a story.
• Point of view - the point of view of a story has a big impact on how the story will be told.
• Malinformation - true information that is shared to cause harm.
• Disinformation - false information that is knowingly shared to mislead or cause harm.
• Misinformation - false information that is shared, but with no harm intended.
• Acknowledgment - the step of validating the other person's feelings.
• Clarifying - checking understanding of a message by asking to hear it again or asking for more information and details.
• Active listening - active listening is when you not only hear what someone is saying, but also attune to their thoughts and feelings
• Express Lack of Opinion - a lack of comprehension of a concept, situation, or idea.
• Back Channeling - listener responses to what is being said rather than the listener attempting to interrupt or take a turn.