STAAR English I: Composition, Revision, and Editing

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  1. active voice
    when the subject of a sentence performs the action
  2. agreement
    in grammar, the correspondence between two words
  3. antecedent
    the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers
  4. audience
    the part of the general public interested in something
  5. clarity
    the quality of being coherent and easily understood
  6. comma
    a punctuation mark (,) indicating the separation of elements
  7. conclusion
    the last section of a communication
  8. context
    discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage
  9. counterargument
    an opinion offered in opposition to another position
  10. detail
    a single fact considered separately from the whole
  11. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  12. effective
    producing or capable of producing an intended result
  13. essay
    an analytic or interpretive literary composition
  14. expository
    serving to expound or set forth
  15. fragment
    an incomplete sentence used as a complete sentence
  16. grammar
    the branch of linguistics that deals with sentence structure
  17. introduction
    the first section of a communication
  18. mechanics
    the technical aspects of doing something
  19. parallelism
    repetition of similar or equivalent syntactic constructions
  20. passive voice
    when the subject of a sentence is a recipient of the action
  21. position
    a way of regarding situations or topics
  22. pronoun
    a function word that is used in place of a noun
  23. punctuation
    a symbol that helps one read and understand written text
  24. purpose
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
  25. redundant
    repeating the same sense in different words
  26. syntax
    the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
  27. tense
    a category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
  28. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
  29. topic
    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  30. transition
    a passage or word that connects a topic to one that follows
Created on Wed May 19 10:05:28 EDT 2021 (updated Fri Jun 18 10:24:12 EDT 2021)

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