STAAR English II: 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. appropriate
    suitable for a particular person, place, or situation
  5. audience
    the part of the general public interested in something
  6. clarity
    the quality of being coherent and easily understood
  7. colon
    a punctuation mark used after a word introducing a series
  8. comma
    a punctuation mark (,) indicating the separation of elements
  9. conclusion
    the last section of a communication
  10. context
    discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage
  11. counterargument
    an opinion offered in opposition to another position
  12. descriptive
    serving to inform
  13. detail
    a single fact considered separately from the whole
  14. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  15. effective
    producing or capable of producing an intended result
  16. essay
    an analytic or interpretive literary composition
  17. expository
    serving to expound or set forth
  18. extraneous
    not pertinent to the matter under consideration
  19. fragment
    an incomplete sentence used as a complete sentence
  20. grammar
    the branch of linguistics that deals with sentence structure
  21. introduction
    the first section of a communication
  22. mechanics
    the technical aspects of doing something
  23. parallelism
    repetition of similar or equivalent syntactic constructions
  24. passive voice
    when the subject of a sentence is a recipient of the action
  25. position
    a way of regarding situations or topics
  26. pronoun
    a function word that is used in place of a noun
  27. punctuation
    a symbol that helps one read and understand written text
  28. purpose
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
  29. redundant
    repeating the same sense in different words
  30. semicolon
    a punctuation mark used to connect independent clauses
  31. syntax
    the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
  32. tense
    a category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
  33. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
  34. topic
    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  35. transition
    a passage or word that connects a topic to one that follows
Created on Wed May 26 09:01:26 EDT 2021 (updated Fri Jun 18 11:14:41 EDT 2021)

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