English 9, Example Vocab, Final

introductory paragraph

What do you think about banning smoking? The whole country is divided on whether smoking should be banned. Smoking should be outlawed because it endangers everyone'shealth; it pollutes theenvironment, and it drains us of valuable energy.

memoir

Death Be Not Proud is an example of a memoir.

data

Each vehicle produced is going to stay on the road for roughly 12 to 15 years.

tone

Father:"We are going on a vacation." Son: "That's great!!!" the tone is that vactions are fun vs Father: "We are going on a vacation." Son: "oh, great I guess" this tone is more pessimistic about vactions

Compound-complex sentences

He went to the store because he was out of milk, and I waited until he got home.

thesis statement

High levels of alcohol consumption have detrimental effects on your personal health, such as weight gain, heart disease, and liver complications.

claim

Hybrid cars are an effective strategy to fight pollution.

Semicolons

I know you don't like spinach; nevertheless it is good for you.

symbolism

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the hallows represent eternal life and death. This idea of enternal life and death is used to represent the dangers of too much power.

sonnet

Sonnet # 18 by willam sheakspear. It is to long to put in this document. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k7XYSTJpJeNccbSMcZyBcH9GMHSPH4Zo5cTf63lmzzc/edit?usp=sharing link to it

Passive voice

The ball was thrown by the boy.

Active Voice

The boy threw the ball.

Compound sentences

The hard drive is fine, but the fan has burnt out.

personification

The leafs danced as the winds strong hand forced them into the ground.

Johnny (The Outsiders)

" stay golden" "I never noticed colors or clouds and stuff until you keep reminding me about them. It's almost like they weren't there before."

Paris ( Romeo and Juliet)

"""Younger than she are happy mothers made."" ""Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it."" Have I thought long to see this morning's face&doth it give me such a sight as this?"" ""...And apprehend thee for a felon here.""

Antigone (Antigone use par onile)

"..Go thine own way; myself will bury him...Scorn, if thou wilt, the eternal laws of Heaven.I scorn them not, but to defy the State Or break her ordinance I have no skill. "'Tis Death I wed."

Romeo ( Romeo and Juliet)

"But, soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." "Oh dear account! My life is my foe's debt" "O! I am Fortune's fool!"

Randy (The Outsiders)

"Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs."

MLA in-text citations

"Here's a direct quote" (Smith 8).

Creon (Antigone use par onile)

"I know it too, and it perplexes me. To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul .That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously." " Not even death can make a foe a friend."

Ponyboy (The Outsiders)

"It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!" "can you see the sunset real good from the West Side?"

Prince ( Romeo and Juliet)

"My blood for your rude brawl doth lie a bleeding. You shall all repent the loss of mine" " For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo"

Lord Capulet ( Romeo and Juliet

"My child is yet a stranger in the world" "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch" 'Speak not; reply not; do not answer me"

Juliet ( Romeo and Juliet)

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" " What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."

Cherry (The Outsiders)

"Things are rough all over" "Maybe the two different worlds we live in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset."

Tybalt ( Romeo and Juliet)

"This, by his voice, should be a Montague.—Fetch me my rapier, boy. " "Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,A villain that is hither come in spite ..."

Mercutio ( Romeo and Juliet)

"prick love for pricking and you beat love down!" "I see Queen Mab hath been with you tonight." "a plague a'both your houses"

metaphor

All the world's a stage

Complete sentence

Andy reads quickly.

scene

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. https://www.rsc.org.uk/romeo-and-juliet/about-the-play/key-moments-and-facts & http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/section7/

warrant

Cars generally have a long lifespan, meaning that a decision to switch to a hybrid car will make a long-term impact on pollution levels

alliteration

Class example:"The soft sounds soothed my sister to sleep."

summary (specific to memoir)

In the last part of the memoir Death Be Not Proud, Johnny's mother reflected on parenting a child who was dying. The book closes with "Unbeliever's Prayer" written by Johnny slightly over a year before his death.

summary (not specific to memoir)

In the story of Christmas carlor 3 ghost vist Scoorge to warn him that if does not change his wicked ways he will die. They take him on a joney through his past, present, and furtue. He learn about love.

Comma splice

Jack read the book, his brother saw a play.

musing

Juliet's musing on the balcony in Romeo and Juliet. "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet."

Friar Laurence ( Romeo and Juliet)

Most famous quotothers on study guide): " These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which as they kiss consume.... Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Sentence fragment

My brother, my other brother, and me.

Simple sentences

Optimus Prime was the greatest transformer of all time.

Benvolio ( Romeo and Juliet)

Part, fools! Put up your swords! You know not what you do!" "What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?" "What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?"

Complex sentences

Peach's team won the game!

relationship

Ron and Hermoine in Harry Potter (friendship developed into romantic relationship)

characterization

The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother.

genre

Twilight is a romance novel while It by Stephen King is a horror novel.

prologue

Two households, both alike in dignity, infair Verona,where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

Run-on sentences

We went on the ship I got seasick.

dramatic irony

You are watching a horror moive and you see that the muder is hidding behind the door, but the chachter does not know that. Soon the chacter opens the door and dies

simile

You walk like a sloth

prewriting strategies

brainstorming, freewriting, mind mapping, thinking, questioning, listening

couplet

do not worry, do not fear. I am happy captive here.

narrative

fairy tales (Once Upon a Time ...), Harry Potter, Charlotte's Web, and Romeo and Juliet (narrative plot)

transitional phrase

in spite of