Unit 2C Vocabulary

Match the following

• sound device

• one or more letters placed before a root or base word that changes the meaning of the word “pre-” “re-” “un-”

• prefix

•  the use of language to create mental images and sensory impressions.

• imagery

• a device used by authors to create meaning through sound and help readers develop visual images

• compound sentence

• a sentence composed of at least two independent clauses with a conjunction or semicolon

Match the following

• figurative language

• the basic form of a word without any affixes

• voice

• an act of searching for information or knowledge about a particular subject or topic

• inquiry

• one or more letters placed after a root or base word that changes the meaning of a word “-able” “-ly”

• suffix

• articulation or expression in coherent form, either verbally or in a piece of writing

• root

•  language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, similes, and other literary devices

Match the following

• word choice

• the author’s thoughtful use of precise vocabulary to fully convey meaning to the reader

• idiom

• an expression that has a different meaning from the literal meaning of its individual words.  “I’m on top of the world!”

• simile

• a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as

• text evidence

•  a comparison of two unlikely things in which the author describes a person using words, but it does not use like or as  “She is a ray of sunshine.”

• metaphor

• paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader’s claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text

(a)   ​ ​ a sentence composed of at least two independent clauses with a conjunction or semicolon​

• compound sentence
• text evidence
• figurative language
• metaphor

(a)    language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, similes, and other literary devices

• figurative language
• word choice
• simile
• idiom

(a)   an expression that has a different meaning from the literal meaning of its individual words.  “I’m on top of the world!”

• Idiom
• prefix
• suffix
• metaphor

(a)    the use of language to create mental images and sensory impressions.

• imagery
• figurative language
• sound device
• voice

(a)   an act of searching for information or knowledge about a particular subject or topic

• inquiry
• idiom
• imagery
• word choice

(a)    a comparison of two unlikely things in which the author describes a person using words, but it does not use like or as  “She is a ray of sunshine.”

• metaphor
• simile
• idiom
• figurative language

(a)   one or more letters placed before a root or base word that changes the meaning of the word “pre-” “re-” “un-”

• prefix
• root
• suffix
• word choice