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U7 - History, Culture and the Author

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18 questions
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  • Q1
    The author's heritage, family life, national identity, economic status, and beliefs that influence their writing.
    writer's background
    30s
  • Q2
    The act of identifying similarities and differences of two or more subjects.
    compare and contrast
    30s
  • Q3
    A sentence created by combining two independent clauses with a conjunction or a semicolon.
    compound sentence
    30s
  • Q4
    A word used to combine sentences or other words.
    conjunction
    30s
  • Q5
    A sentence that contains an independent clause and a dependent clause.
    complex sentence
    30s
  • Q6
    A sentence fragment.
    dependent clause
    30s
  • Q7
    A complete sentence.
    independent clause
    30s
  • Q8
    A comparison between two things that are alike in some way.
    analogy
    30s
  • Q9
    A struggle that arises because of the differing values, customs, or circumstances between groups of people.
    cultural conflict
    30s
  • Q10
    A punctuation mark used to separate two independent clauses in a compound sentence.
    semicolon
    30s
  • Q11
    Words and phrases that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
    imagery/sensory details
    30s
  • Q12
    A reading skill in which the reader uses information in the text and his/her own knowledge to figure out things that aren't stated directly by the author.
    make inferences
    30s
  • Q13
    When the reader determines the meaning of an unknown word by using the words and sentences around it.
    vocabulary in context
    30s
  • Q14
    when two independent clauses and a dependent clause come together to make one sentence
    compound-complex sentence
    30s
  • Q15
    the reason behind why an author writes on a specific topic
    author's purpose
    30s

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