Daniel Defoe
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An English novelist wrote Robinson Crusoe (1791), an exciting tale about a
sailor shipwrecked on a tropical island. This book was a commentary on
what it took to survive in the 18th century: entrepreneurial ingenuity and the
ability to improvise.
E.B. White
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, E.B. White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker
magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide, The
Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White".
fricative
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a consonant sound made by passing a continuous stream of air through a
narrow passage in the vocal tract.
syntax
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the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or
sentences
William Shakespear
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(1564 - 1616) English poet and playwright considered one of the greatest
writers of the English language; works include Julius Caesar, Macbeth,
Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
,possessive adjective
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show possession or ownership. , my, your, his, her, its, our, their
elizabethan english
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The language of Shakespeare's era; thy thou thine thy
pathos
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Appeal to emotion
parody (tone)
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humous or ridiculing imitation of something else
, J. R. R. Tolkien
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English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor best known as the
author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937), The Lord of the
Rings, and The Silmarillion. Books that taught people to long for truth and
goodnes
interpretive or inferential comprehension
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second level of understanding - requires reading between the lines - all
answers are not physically found - requires figuring out the answer...draw
conclusions, inferencing, generalizing, speculating, predicting, summarizing
couplet
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A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a
poem.
Parable
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An English novelist wrote Robinson Crusoe (1791), an exciting tale about a
sailor shipwrecked on a tropical island. This book was a commentary on
what it took to survive in the 18th century: entrepreneurial ingenuity and the
ability to improvise.
E.B. White
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, E.B. White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker
magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide, The
Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White".
fricative
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a consonant sound made by passing a continuous stream of air through a
narrow passage in the vocal tract.
syntax
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the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or
sentences
William Shakespear
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(1564 - 1616) English poet and playwright considered one of the greatest
writers of the English language; works include Julius Caesar, Macbeth,
Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
,possessive adjective
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show possession or ownership. , my, your, his, her, its, our, their
elizabethan english
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The language of Shakespeare's era; thy thou thine thy
pathos
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Appeal to emotion
parody (tone)
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humous or ridiculing imitation of something else
, J. R. R. Tolkien
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English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor best known as the
author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937), The Lord of the
Rings, and The Silmarillion. Books that taught people to long for truth and
goodnes
interpretive or inferential comprehension
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second level of understanding - requires reading between the lines - all
answers are not physically found - requires figuring out the answer...draw
conclusions, inferencing, generalizing, speculating, predicting, summarizing
couplet
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A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a
poem.
Parable
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