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. 2. 3. 4. 5. prewriting narrowing and exploring a topic drafting starting to write; ideas develop and come into sharper focus revise making changes editing correcting errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation publish when you get to see your ideas in a finished for

5. organization of paragraphs 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 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

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

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