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| an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word |
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| the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
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| a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. |
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| a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. |
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| a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing. |
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| literature in the English language from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands |
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| a complete list of items, typically one in alphabetical or other systematic order, in particular. |
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| is arranged in the order it happened |
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| the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. |
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| conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie. |
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| an article in a newspaper or other periodical or on a website presenting the opinion of the publisher, writer, or editor. |
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| a short extract from a film, broadcast, or piece of music or writing. |
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| a portable illustrated book to help identify birds, plants, rocks, etc., as on a nature walk. |
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| is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. |
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| each of two words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling |
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| technique a writer uses to produce a special effect in their writing. |
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| plot, theme, character and tone |
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| an initial sound, a middle sound |
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| is a short work of autobiographical nonfiction characterized by a sense of intimacy and a conversational manner. |
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| the action of mentioning or alluding to something. |
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| are 'controls' or standards used to check the quality and metrological traceability of products |
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| the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. |
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| the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred. |
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| of information is one that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand |
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| the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds. |
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| a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen. |
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| perceptible by comparison; relative. |
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| the day of the month or year as specified by a number. |
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| a symbol used in printed text to mark a new paragraph or as a reference mark. |
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| demanding someone's total attention and love. |
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| of the highest quality or degree. |
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| a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it. |
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| a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb |
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| To persuade is the first main type of author's purpose |
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| a list of the books referred to in a scholarly work, usually printed as an appendix. |
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| is a form of literary criticism in which a book is analyzed based on content, style, and merit. |
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| an advertisement in a newspaper, magazine, or the like generally dealing with offers of or requests for jobs, houses, apartments, used cars, and the like. |
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| an advertisement in a newspaper, magazine, or the like generally dealing with offers of or requests for jobs, houses, apartments, used cars, and the like. |
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| a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate. |
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| the nature of something's ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up. |
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| the act of expounding, setting forth, or explaining |
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| the edge or border of something. |
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| a written message, especially in business. |
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| a gesture or utterance made as a greeting or acknowledgment of another's arrival or departure. |
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| especially of a muscle or someone's body) stretched tight or rigid. |
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| a matter dealt with in a text, discourse, or conversation; a subject. |
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| the part of a sentence containing the verb and any direct or indirect object, but not the subject. |
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