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
