| A | B |
|---|
| direct characterization | "John was a brilliant boy." |
| indirect characterization | writer shows reader what a character is like through actions/speech |
| character traits | shy, daring, courageous |
| theme | a truth about life revealed in a work of literature |
| context clues | words amd sentences surrounding an unfamiliar word |
| simile | "His hair like moldy hay" |
| metaphor | "I was a lonely, wandering cloud" |
| idiom | a commonly used expression that is not literally true |
| analogy | a comparison of two things to show how they are alike |
| cause | what makes an event happen |
| effect | what happens as a result of an event |
| causal chain | series of events in which each event causes another to happen |
| character analysis | expository writing about a character from a story |
| compare & contrast transition | however; although |
| revising | changing writing to make it better |
| simple sentence | contains one independent clause & no subordinate clause |
| compound sentence | contains 2 or more independent clauses and no subordinate clauses |
| complex sentence | contains 1 independent clause and at least 1 subordinate clause |
| helping verb | helps the main verb express action or state of being |
| noun | car;San Diego; Barack Obama |
| direct object | noun or pronoun that tells who or what receives the action of the verb |
| adjective phrase | a prepositional phrase used as an adjective |
