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| writing that represents a series of events |
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| Prose (non poetic) writing that tellsa bout imaginary cahracters and events |
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| writing thats a portrayal, in words, something that can be percieved by the senses |
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| Writing that explains a position posed by the writer |
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| writing that tries to convince the reader or listener to act or think in a certain way |
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| A persuasive peice of writing that presents and logically supports a particular view or opinion (diff from persuasive which relies on emotion not logic) |
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| tells astory to make a point or paints a picture to evoke the senses |
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| to first state the general idea and follow with specific reasons, examples facts and details to support it |
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| clarifying a situation by establishing limits for what a word and concept cannot mean |
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| to move upward from specific examples to some feature they have in common (1) or to move downward from some concept to some system of subcategories within that concept (2) |
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| to show relationships between events and their results |
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| to demonstrate that one object is better than another or to reveal a paticular relationship between to objects |
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| an operation that moves through a seris of steps to bring about the desired result |
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| order of importance (chronilogical/ spatial) |
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| organizing an argument by presenting the steps in a process first to last, by presenting details followed by a general statement or conclusion/ or presenting ideas in order of their physical postion (top-bottom, left-right, background-foreground) |
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| The series of related event that make uo a narrative such as a story, novle or epic |
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| Introduces the characters, setting and ussualy the narratives major conflict |
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| A literary device used at the beginning of a story or novel for the purpose of aurosing a readers curiosity and encouraging him to read farther |
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| Accelerates and adds complications to the plot |
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| a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces or emotions |
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| the moment of greatest emotional intensity or suspense |
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| unravelling the complications |
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| setttles the plots conflict |
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| a short addition to the end of literary work, often dealing with the future of its characters |
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| a clue or clues that hint at what is going to happen later |
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| a scene in a narative work that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash backward" and tell what happened at an earlier time |
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| the time and place of a story, play or narrative poem |
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| where the story actually takes place |
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| emotional/atmosphere/mood |
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| feeling about a scene or subject created for the reader by the writers selection of words and details |
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| the vantage point from which a writer tells a story |
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| the narrator is a character in a story |
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| the narrator is outside the story- like an omniscent narrator- but tells the story from the vantage point of only one character |
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| used in non fiction to be factual and free of personal opinion and judgemnet |
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| the narator knows everything that is going on in the story, but is outside the story acting as a godlike observer who can tell us what the characters are thinking and feeling. |
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| the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character |
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| The central idea or insight of a work of literature |
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| a comparison of two things to show that theu are alike in certain respects |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as liks, as than or resembles |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using a connective word like, as, than, or resmenbles |
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| a kind of metaphor on which a non human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
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| a reference to a statement, person, place, event or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics or some other field of knowledge |
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| language that appeals to the senses |
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| words that name or state explicity |
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| a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on similar sense of sound of different words |
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| the act or example of the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensive |
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| a figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something |
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| a figure of speech by which a more inclusive term is used for a less inclusive term or visa versa |
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| the common use of circumlocution |
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| a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addreses an absent or dead person, a deity, an abstract quality, or something non human as if ir were capable of responding |
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| a person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and for something beyond its self |
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| a word character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or several works |
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| a pattern or model that serves as the basis for different, but related versions a character, plot, image or theme |
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| A contrast or discrepancy between expectations and reality, between what is said and what really happens, or what appears to be true and what is really true |
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| A figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or opposing ideas |
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| an apparent contradiction that is actually true |
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| the situation plus the opinion or bias of the writer (articulated in a sentence) |
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| non standard (levels of diction) |
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| language deficient in some form or manner |
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| vulgarity (levels of diction) |
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| language deficient in taste and refinement (coarse, base) |
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| slang (levels of diction) |
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| vernacular language, sometimes humorous, exagerated, or shortened for effect (chick, dude, bomb, playa, tight) |
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| colloquial (levels of diction) |
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| reginal language; differing in usage, connotation, and pronounciation- accepted in informal conversation (soda/pop, bag/sack, bucket/pail) |
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| jargon (levels of diction) |
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| language specific to a certain field of profession (chip, bit, byte, CPU, zip= computer field) |
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| cliche (levels of diction) |
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| figurative language used so much that it has lost freshness and clarity (jump for joy, quick as a flash) |
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| informal/standard (levels of diction) |
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| language gramatically correct, but conversational |
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| formal/ literate (levels of diction) |
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| language appropriate for more formal equations; often more abstract |
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| euphonious (types of diction) |
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| literal (types of diction) |
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| accurate language with embelishment |
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| denotative (types of diction) |
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| language with exact meaning |
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| objective (types of diction) |
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| language impersonal, unemotional, unbiased |
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| active (types of diction) |
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| states action (students made progress) |
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| concrete (specific) (types of diction) |
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| language specific/tangible (things, facts) |
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| hyperbole (overstated)(types of diction) |
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| language deliberately misrepresenting as more |
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| pedestrian (types of diction) |
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| language of common layman (cool/urban,cosmopolitan, swauve) |
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| assonance (devices of sound) |
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| repetition of similar vowel sounds in closely associated words-full rhyme (no pain, no gain) |
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| repetition of similar constanant sounds in closely associated words- half rhyme (each slow dusk is a drawing down of blinds) |
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| repetition of initial constanant sound in closely associated words (The twisting trout twinkled below) |
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| words whose pronounciations suggest meaning (buzz, hiss, sizzle,snort) |
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| comparative language for pictorial effect (frugal/ tight as bark on a tree) |
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| language with suggested emotional meaning |
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| language personal, emotionally biased (grading by data/grading by personality) |
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| states being (progress made by students) |
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| language conceptual, philosophical (ideas) |
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| laguage deliberatley misrepresenting as less |
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| language inflated to display importance |
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| The adjectives a, an (indefinite) and the (definite) |
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| A word that names a person place, thing, or idea |
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| A word that takes the place of a noun, a group of words actring as a noun or another pronoun |
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| a word that expresse s and action or state of being and is necessary to a make a statement |
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| A word that modiofes a noun or pronoun by limiting its meaning |
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| A word that modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb ny makin gits meaning more specific |
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| A word that shoes the relationship between a noun or a pronoun to another word in the sentence |
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| A word that joins single words or groups of words (and, but, or) |
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| A word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation |
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| A part of the sentenct comprising what the sentence is about |
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| A part of the sentence comprising what is said about the subject |
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| Answers the question what? or whom? (after an action verb) |
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| Answers the question to whom? for who? to what? or for what? (after and action verb) |
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| A word or group of words that completes the meaning |
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| A noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and points back to the subject to rename it or to identify it futher |
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| An adjective that follows a linking verb and points back to the subject to further describe it |
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| A group of related words lacking a subject or predicate functioniong as a part of speech |
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| group of related words around a preposition used as an adj/adv |
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| group of related words around a noun used to rename or identify a noun/ pronoun |
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| A verb form that functions in a sentence as a noun, an adjective or an adverb |
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| forms of the verb that function as adjectives |
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| froms of the vern that function as nouns. Alwasys end in "ing" |
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| group of related words around to plus verb used as noun/adj/adv |
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| group of related words with a subject and predicate |
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| must always be accompanied by and independent clause to complete meaning |
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| can stand alone as a meaningfull sentence |
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| A sentence containing one subject and one predicate |
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| sentence containing two independent clauses (joined by conjuntion or semicolon) |
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| sentence comtaingin one indpendent clause and one or more subordinate clauses |
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| sentence containg two or moire independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses |
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| sentence that makes a statement |
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| snetence that gives a command |
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| sentence that makes an exclamation |
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| sentence that asks a question |
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| sentence that asks a question without needing an answer |
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| sentence with subject prior to predicate |
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| sentence with predicate prior to subject |
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| sentence which expresses the subject near the beginning and adds modifying elements at the end |
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| sentence which expresses the subject after all the modyfying elements |
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| sentence with dependent elements set off by dashes, parentases, or commas (draws attention to materials insinde) |
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| sentence with structural similarity (words/phrases/clauses) so that elements of equal importance have equal development |
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| snetence constucted as to emphasize a similarity/difffernce between 2 or more parts (words, phrases, clauses) |
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