Mr. Salsich's Web-based Textbook
Acknowledgements
Some of this textbook is adapted, with appreciation, from public websites, including that of
Professor Jack Lynch
of Rutgers University.
INDEX
A+ BASIC figures of speech 9
A+ BASIC grammar terms 8-9
A+ BASIC literary terminology 8-9
A+ BASIC punctuation rules 8-9
absolutes 9
adjective 8-9
adjective clauses 8-9
adverb 8-9
adverb clauses 8-9
affect vs. effect 9
alliteration 9
among vs. between 9
anaphora 9
annotating a book 8-9
antecedent 9
antithesis 9
AP PROMPTS
apostrophe 8-9
appositives 9
appreciating a book 8-9
audience 8-9
bell word 8-9
bluntness 8-9
capitalization rules 8-9
cf. 9
characteristics of effective writing 8-9
chiasmus 9
clarity 8-9
clause 8-9
clearly obviously undoubtedly 9
cliches 8-9
colon
comma splice
commas
complex sentence
compound sentence
compound-complex sentence
concrete language 8-9
coordinating conjunctions
dash
denotation and connotation
dependent clause 8-9
diction
direct object
direct object 9
disinterested vs. uninterested
economical writing
Eleven- sentence paragaph 8-9
ellipses 8-9
emphasis 9
epiphora 9
FAST words
five steps 8-9
four ways of developing a paragraph 9
four-sentence formula 8-9
generalizations 8-9
gerunds 9
graphic organizers
independent clause 8-9
indirect objects
infinitives
interpolations 9
irony 9
islands and books
linking verbs
loose sentence
noun
obfuscation
parallelism
parallelism 8-9
participles 9
periodic sentence
polishing your writing
power of organizing 8-9
prepositional phrases
presentation of your writing 8-9
pronoun
punctuating quotations
punctuating titles
reading and hawks
reading and mountains
relative pronouns 8-9
relaxing reading and serious reading 8-9
self-assessment
semicolons
sentence base
subject complement
subordinating conjunction 8-9
transitions
transitive and intransitive verb 9
tricolon 9
types of sentences
verb
weak words
writing on demand
writing with lists 9
BASIC LITERARY TERMINOLOGY
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