1. Essential Skills Quarter 2
Mrs. CB

2. Syntax
A set of rules in a language. It dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought.

3. Diction
Style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or writer.
Can help us identify the tone/mood

4. Extended Metaphor
a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem

5. Oxymoron
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
example: I am busy doing nothing.

6. Pun
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings (see Romeo and Juliet handout for examples)

7. Rhyme
A repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems

8. Rhythm
Demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables
Ex. IAMB (first syllable not stressed, second syllable stressed)

9. Repetition
Repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer

10. Alliteration
A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound occur close together in a series
But a better butter makes a batter better
Alliteration doesn’t depend on letters, depends on sounds
Not Knotty is alliterative, but cigarette chase is not.

11. Assonance
Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds
Example: Men sell the wedding bells.

12. Consonance
The repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.
He struck some good luck
Think tank
Touch the peach on the beach
The big frog was on the log

13. Connotation
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
For instance, “Wall Street” literally means a street situated in Lower Manhattan, but connotatively, it refers to “wealth” and “power”

14. Denotation
A literal or dictionary meaning of a word

15. Author’s Purpose
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
Reflect

16. Subordinating Conjunctions
Joins a subordinate clause to a main clause
After Where
Although While
Because As long as
Before As soon as
Since Even though
Though Than
Unless That
Until Inasmuch
When In order that

17. Examples of Subordinating Conjunctions
After: Your heart will break like mine, and you’ll want only me after you’ve gone
Although: Although I’ve been here before, he’s just too hard to ignore.
As: As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there’s nothing left.
If: If you leave me now, you’ll take away the biggest part of me.

18. When to use a comma See comma packet
Create a list in your notes of appropriate times to use

19. When to use a semi-colon
When you are joining two independent clauses
AND
The clauses are related