Unit 2: Conventions, Writing, and Speaking & Listening

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  1. informative
    serving to instruct or enlighten
  2. tense
    a category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
  3. biographical
    of or relating to an account of a person's life
  4. skit
    a short theatrical performance or episode
  5. reflective
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  6. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  7. subjunctive
    relating to a verbal mood used for hypothetical acts
  8. indicative
    of a verb mood that is used in simple declarative statements
  9. evaluation
    the act of ascertaining or judging the quality of
  10. voice
    grammatical relation of the subject of a verb to the action
  11. active voice
    when the subject of a sentence performs the action
  12. passive voice
    when the subject of a sentence is a recipient of the action
  13. response
    a statement that is made to reply to a question or request
  14. analogy
    drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity
  15. speech
    a formal spoken communication to an audience
  16. essay
    an analytic or interpretive literary composition
  17. argumentative
    given to or characterized by a tendency to dispute
  18. analytical
    using or skilled in using reasoning
Created on Mon Feb 08 10:25:07 EST 2021 (updated Thu Feb 18 12:38:52 EST 2021)

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