MAPS Academic Language Review

MAPS Academic Language Review

General Language Review - www.net.townson.edu/ows/index.htm

1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd person

http://www.teachingandlearningresources.co.uk/person.shtml

abstract/concrete nouns

http://www.geocities.com/pants098/conab.html

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/nouns.htm#abstract_nouns

adverbial clause

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm#adverb_clauses (test)

allegory

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/allegory.html

alliteration

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/alliteration.html

allusion

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/allusion.html

appendix

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&defl=en&q=define:appendix&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

archetype

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/archetypal

antecedent

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm

appositive

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/appositive.htm

assonance

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/assonance.htm

assumption (definition)

http://www.answers.com/topic/assumption

auxiliary verbs

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/auxiliary.htm (test)

characterization

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/characterization.html

clause

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm

independent clause and dependent

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm#independent

subordinate clause

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm

adjective clause

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm#adjective_clauses

adverb clause

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm#adverb_clauses

colloquialism

http://www.mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/reading/glossary.shtml

comma splice

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm#splice

common/proper noun

(my mother/Mother) http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n1.htm (test)

conjunction

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm

consonance

http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/C/consonance.htm

diction

http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/diction.html

editorial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editorial

http://www.answers.com/topic/editorial

ellipsis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis#Ellipsis_in_writing

epic poem

http://www.ehow.com/how_3334_write-epic-poem.html

exposition

http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/expository.htm

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/terms/#Exposition

expository essay

http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/ExpositoryEssay.html

expository paragraph

http://www.humboldt.edu/~tdd2/Paragraphing.htm

extended metaphor

http://www.vsg.edu.au/samples/poetry/npsample.htm

falling action

http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/teachers/mschrepferman/Reading/literary_terms_am.htm

faulty tense change

http://english.byu.edu/writingcenter/pdf/faulty-shifts.pdf

flashback

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/terms/2terms.html#Flashback

gerund phrases

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#gerund (test)

homophone

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/homofone.htm

hyperbole

http://volweb.utk.edu/school/bedford/harrisms/hyperbole.htm

iambic pentameter

http://www.answers.com/topic/iambic-pentameter

imperative, declarative, interrogative, exclamatory sentences

http://205.126.22.50/language/lessons/foursentences.html (test)

indefinite pronouns

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm

indirect and direct object

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/objects.htm

infinitive

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm#infinitive

infinitive phrase

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#infinitive

interjection

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/interjections.htm

irony

http://www.delmar.edu/engl/wrtctr/handouts/irony.htm

limerick

http://volweb.utk.edu/school/bedford/harrisms/limerick.htm

linking verbs

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm#linking

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm#linking (test)

literary device

http://mrbraiman.home.att.net/lit.htm

literary response

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson281/model_response.pdf

memoir

http://www.uwc.ucf.edu/Writing%20Resources/Handouts/memoir.htm

memorandum

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/antithesis;_ylt=Ap.t4DaG534x3L89Hyt5RX9wCssF

metric feet

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0903237.html

metonymy

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticterms/WhatIsMetonymy.htm

modifier

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/modifiers.htm

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/metonymy.html

narration

http://www.notesinthemargin.org/glossary.html#n

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/narratology/terms/narration.html

narrative

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/personal.htm

nominative pronoun

http://www.grammargoddess.com/pronouns.htm

noun clause

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm#noun

noun phrase

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#noun

objective pronoun (all types of pronouns)

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0885483.html

omniscient

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/op/writing/old_pointofview1.htm

onomatopoeia

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/onomatopoeia.html

oxymoron

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnOxymoron.htm

parable

http://www.answers.com/topic/parable

parody

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody

paradox

http://www.answers.com/topic/paradox

parallel, non parallel construction

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/parallelism.htm (test)

paraphrase

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_paraphr.html

participial

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#participle

participial phrase

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#participle

participle

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm#participle

passive and active voice

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/passive.htm

pathetic fallacy (like personification)

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/pathetic%20fallacy

personification

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/personification.html

plural possessives

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm (test)

point of view

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/read/pov2.html

predicate noun (nominative)

http://grammar.uoregon.edu/nouns/predicateN.html

pronoun antecedent

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm

pun

http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/puns.htm

predicate (contains a verb)

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/objects.htm#predicate

primary/secondary source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_source

reflexive pronoun

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns1.htm#reflexive

scansion

http://www.stedwards.edu/hum/klawitter/poetics/scansion.html

simple, compound, complex sentence

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sentences.htm#sentence_types (test)

sonnet

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sonnet.html

symbol / symbolism

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/symbol.html

http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1997/janfeb/feat3.htm

stereotype

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stereotype

synecdoche

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/synecdoche.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/synecdoche

thesis

http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/thesis.html

antithesis

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/antithesis;_ylt=Ap.t4DaG534x3L89Hyt5RX9wCssF

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html

tone

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/tone.htm

tragedy

http://www.answers.com/topic/tragedy

transition

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/transitions.htm

works cited

http://www.answers.com/topic/works-cited

http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/cite/works_cited.htm