English Terms and notes

Infinitive

A verbal phrase that can be used as a noun, adverb, or adjective and is preceded by the word to

have a vocabulary, rules of grammar, syntax, and sound

All languages

1. Egyptian court performances 2. Greek comedies and tragedies 3. Roman comedies and tragedies 4. Drama almost disappears 5. Churches perform religious-based performances 6. The Renaissance

Drama developed in the following order

spine, catalog

The identifying number of a book, found on its ______ or in the _______, is called the call number

Genre

a distinctive classification or category of literature

Fallacy

a faulty argument

Participle

a verb that functions as an adjective

Tense

a verb's time of action

Indelible

cannot be removed or washed out

Proofreading

checking for grammatical, spelling, and typographical errors

Spatial order

commonly used for description

Slant rhyme

doesn't perfectly rhyme

Comedy

ends with a happy ending

Salutation

greeting

The Normans

invaded England in 1066 and brought French with them

English

is a German language that descended from Indo-European

The card catalog

lists books by subject, author, and title

Romantics

loved nature, imagination, and based writing on feelings

Subjunctive

mood expresses a wish

Imperative

mood gives a command

Listening

paying active attention to the words of a speaker

Simple listing

places details in no particular order

Voice quality

result of length, size, tension, and elasticity of the vocal cords

Antecedent

specific noun to which a pronoun refers

Cochlea

spiral tube of the inner ear that contains nerve endings

Acoustics

structural features of an auditorium

Trite

worn out

For the naturalistic

writer scientific laws govern individual instances

Collective noun

names a group of things or peoples

Abstract noun

names something you cannot see or touch

Denouement

conclusion of the story

Topic sentence

contains the main idea

Compound sentence

contains two or more main clauses

Indicative

mood is most common in English because it gives a statement

Conjugation

arrangement of verb forms by tense, voice, mood, person, and number

Larynx

the "voice box"

Tympanic membrane

the eardrum

Setting

the mood, time, and place in which a play or story occurs

Conflict

the problem of a story

Stage

the raised platform where plays are performed; to perform a play

Set

the stage and scenery for a play

Script

the text of a play

Stage directions

the written instructions from the author to the actors

Cause and effect

used to explain why things happen

Order of importance

used to stress one idea over another

Time order

used to tell "what happened when"

Simile

uses like or as