Unit 4: Part 2

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  1. protest
    express opposition through action or words
    Use Key Words and other words to talk about how some workers protest unfair treatment.
  2. strike
    refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad conditions
    Workers go on strike. A strike is a way to protest with nonviolence.
  3. nonviolence
    peaceful resistance to a government
    Workers go on strike. A strike is a way to protest with nonviolence.
  4. labor
    productive work, especially physical work done for wages
    Workers often strike for better labor, or work, conditions.
  5. condition
    a state at a particular time
    Workers often strike for better labor, or work, conditions.
  6. demand
    an urgent or peremptory request
    Strikers make signs to express their demands.
  7. barrier
    a structure or object that impedes free movement
    A barrier prevents you from getting to something. The wall was a barrier to freedom.
  8. conflict
    an open clash between two opposing groups
    A conflict is a disagreement between people or groups.
  9. demonstrate
    show the validity of something, as by example or explanation
    When you demonstrate something, you show or express your feelings or knowledge about it.
  10. oppose
    be against
    Oppose means to disagree with an idea or action. They protested to oppose the government's decision.
  11. require
    have need of
    Require means to need. A plant requires sunlight to survive.
  12. sequence
    a following of one thing after another in time
    When events happen in a certain order, they happen in sequence.
  13. inference
    a conclusion you can draw based on known evidence
    The caption does not say why the women are demonstrating. You can use what you see and what you already know to figure out, or make an inference about, what the women are protesting.
  14. biography
    an account of the series of events making up a person's life
    A biography is the story of a person's life, written by another person.
  15. synonym
    a word that expresses the same or similar meaning
    Synonyms are words that have the same, or nearly the same, meaning, such as hard and difficult.
  16. literary
    appropriate to creative writing of recognized artistic value
    Authors often use literary language, such as similes and metaphors, to compare things and to describe what they want you to see, hear, and feel.
  17. device
    something in an artistic work designed to achieve an effect
    Authors also use literary devices, such as imagery and foreshadowing, to communicate with readers in a special way.
  18. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
    Imagery helps readers imagine how people and things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel.
  19. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
    Foreshadowing gives clues at the beginning of the text that gets readers interested to find out what will happen at the end.
  20. primary source
    a firsthand document that provides information
    Primary sources, such as letters, diaries, and official documents, provide direct, firsthand knowledge from eyewitnesses to the event.
  21. secondary source
    a work that describes or analyzes firsthand accounts
    Secondary sources give information based on primary sources. They include nonfiction books, newspapers, and Web sites.
  22. paraphrase
    express the same message in different words
    Paraphrase, or put all of the information in your own words.
  23. plagiarize
    take without referencing from someone's writing or speech
    Put all the information in your own words. Never use words directly from the source. This is called plagiarizing, and it's a type of stealing.
Created on Tue Oct 19 16:01:50 EDT 2021 (updated Tue Oct 26 14:18:18 EDT 2021)

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