Secondary 5 English Language Arts Ministerial Examination - Québec flashcards
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- Aspect
- The way a verb phrase presents an event or state in relation to time, such as ongoing, completed or connected with the present.
- Collocation
- A conventional combination of words whose natural use is learned in context, rather than created by substituting any dictionary synonym.
- Register
- Language choices suited to the situation, audience, purpose and relationship, such as a formal request or an informal message to a friend.
- Conditional
- A construction linking a condition with a result, whose forms help express real possibilities, imagined situations or unreal past events.
- Word formation
- Creating a suitable grammatical word form, such as a noun or adjective, while preserving the meaning required by the complete sentence.
- Inference
- A conclusion reasonably supported by the given text, distinguished from a directly stated detail or an unrelated assumption based on outside knowledge.
- Tone
- The attitude conveyed by wording, structure and other textual choices, which should be explained with evidence rather than guessed from the topic alone.
- Narrator
- The voice or figure presenting a narrative, which must be distinguished from the author and from every character's view within the story.
- Cohesion
- Explicit language links connecting parts of a text, such as reference, connectors, repetition and related vocabulary, distinct from overall logical development.
- Qualification
- Language limiting or modifying a claim, such as may, some or inthese circumstances, which should not be removed when interpreting meaning.
- Mediation
- Selecting and communicating relevant source meaning for a particular audience and purpose, with adaptation or explanation where needed while preserving essential qualifications.
- Thesis
- The central position or claim developed in an argumentative text, which needs support and must remain relevant to the actual task.
- Counterargument
- A meaningful opposing consideration that an argument addresses with reasons and evidence, rather than a deliberately weak distraction inserted for appearance.
- Task coverage
- The extent to which a response supplies the relevant requested content for its intended reader, rather than merely using fluent language.
- Revision
- Reconsidering a draft's meaning, organization, register and language so the final text fulfils its purpose more accurately and clearly.
- Stance
- A reasoned position on an issue that a writer develops for a particular audience, with relevant support rather than an unsupported assertion.
- Synthesis
- The organization of relevant ideas from multiple sources around a purpose or argument, instead of a sequence of unrelated source summaries.
- Attribution
- Clear identification of the source of a quotation, distinctive idea or claim, so the reader can distinguish borrowed material from original analysis.
- Expository position
- An explanation or argument deliberately developed to communicate and support a position, using the conventions appropriate to the chosen genre and task.
- Literary interpretation
- An evidence-based account of meaning developed through analysis of a text, which goes beyond plot retelling without inventing events absent from it.