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Hiroshima Vocab

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Vocabulary: Hiroshima 1. cull: verb; to choose, select, pick 2. incarcerated: verb/adjective; imprisoned, confined 3. incendiaries: noun; a person who deliberately sets fire to buildings or other property, as an arsonist 4. succinct: adjective; expressed in a few words, concise 5. gangrene: noun; death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition 6. putrescent: adjective; rotting or decaying 7. capricious: adjective; subject to an odd, sudden notion or unpredictable change; erratic 8. mimeograph: noun; a printing machine with an ink-fed drum stencils designs onto paper 9. Artemisia: noun; any plants in this genus having aromatic foliage and small disk flowers, e.g. sagebrush, wormwood, and mugwort

AP English Language and Composition Resource

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Adapted from V. Stevenson, Patrick Henry High School, and Abrams? Glossary of Literary Terms Terms ? AP English Language and Composition These terms should be of use to you in answering the multiple-choice questions, analyzing prose passages, and composing your essays. allegory ? The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. In some allegories, for example, an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction like hope or freedom. The allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence.

noun clauses

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Edwin Roman B-1 10-27-13 Noun Clauses Noun clauses are?dependent clauses. A dependent clause is one that cannot stand by itself. If a dependent clause is placed by its self, it forms a fragment, not a sentence. A noun clause can be a?subject of a verb: What Billy did?shocked his friends. What John said was offensive A noun clause can be an?object of a verb: Billy?s friends didn?t know?that he couldn?t swim. Her teacher did not know that he was confused. A noun clause can be a?subject complement: Billy?s mistake was?that he refused to take lessons. Highland has been good in sports. A noun clause can be an?object of a preposition: Mary is not responsible for?what Billy did. A noun clause (but not a noun) can be an?adjective complement:

Vocab Analysis Examples

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Vocabulary 5 Part 1 1. Reconnaissance from Jonathan Safar Foer' Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (noun): military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features "'Sometimes the Resonnaissance Expeditions were extremely simple, like when he told me to bring back something from every twentieth century -I was clever and brought back a rock- and sometimes they were extremely difficult and would go on for a couple of weeks.'" (Foer 8) Synonym 1: Exploration (noun): an act or instance of investigating Synonym 2: Analysis (noun): the seperating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements

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A Twin?s Despair Usually the explorations (noun) the girl and her twin sister went on were enjoyable; a reconnaissance (noun) of some type. Yet this adventure went terribly wrong. They had ended up in a dark room, lit only by a dim candle in the corner. As one twin started to wake up, she was confused and attempted to analyze (verb) the situation. Due to the dimness of the room, she could not make out much; only a figure, similar to her size.

Basic Grammar

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1 Copyright Copyright 2009 - Daily Writing Tips http://www.dailywritingtips.com/ All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, posted or shared in any form, by any means. The content of this ebook was written by Maeve Maddox and Daniel Scocco. 2 Introduction This ebook does not attempt to include every aspect of English grammar found in a traditional school textbook. Its purpose is to present a brief review of grammar terms necessary to an understanding of the most common errors that occur in ordinary, non- academic writing. Because written language is an arrangement of words, understanding how words work individually and in groups is essential to correct written expression. The sports fan must understand terms like
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