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Joyce Ahn

Kosa 7

Language Arts Study Guide

1. theme the central idea or message of a work of literature

2. topic of selection the subject of a selected piece of literature

3. authors purpose the reason why an author writes a piece of literature

to entertain to persuade to inform

4. steps of writing process

1. prewriting narrowing and exploring a topic2. drafting starting to write; ideas develop and come into sharper focus3. revise making changes4. editing correcting errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation5. publish when you get to see your ideas in a finished for

5. organization of paragraphs

comparing and contrasting telling how things are alike and different chronological order shows how events follow one another in a certain order spatial order shows how people and objects appear cause and effect explains a process or an event

6. Writing

personal narrative relates a story or event persuasive persuades someone to see things your way descriptive describes a person, place, thing, or experience informative (expository) explains something or provides information on a subject

7. a paragraph needs:

topic sentence states the main idea of the paragraph unity all sentences contain related information that supports the rest of the

sentence

coherence all sentences connect to another smoothly and logically

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8. Resources

periodical magazine, catalogue; comes in periodically dictionary a reference book on any subject that lists the words of a language in

alphabetical order and gives their meaning thesaurus reference book that lists words and their synonyms and antonym atlas a book of maps

9. mood the feeling about a scene or a subject created by a writers selection of words and

details

10. Literary Devices

simile comparison of two things using the words like or as metaphor comparison of two things without using the words like or as alliteration repetition of initial consonant sounds onomatopoeia the use of words that imitate sounds

11. subject-verb agreement grammatical rule that states that the verb must agree in number

with its subject

12. FANBOYS for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so; connects different sentences

13. pronouns - words used in place of nouns

possessive shows ownership subjective acts as the subject objective used as the object of a verb or a preposition