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| employ | to put to use |
| employ | to use information or resources for academic purposes |
| foreign phrases | phrases in the English language that are borrowed from other languages |
| genre | a specific literary type |
| hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration, not intended to be taken literally |
| imagery | figurative description or illustration |
| inference | to conclude or judge from the given evidence |
| mnemonic device | a sentence or phrase that helps people memorize something |
| writing modes | a particular form of writing |
| multiple meanings | more than one meaning |
| personification | giving personal human nature or character to inanimate objects |
| rhyme | a word agreeing with another in sound |
| rhythm | a patterned repetition at regular or irregular intervals |
| point of view | the position of the narrator in relation to the story |
| point of view | the author's perspective on a topic |
| propaganda | information, ideas or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, etc. |
| relevant | something connected to the matter at hand |
| relevancy | how or how well something is connected to the matter at hand |
| sequential order | items or ideas that follow one another in a logical or predetermined order |
| sidebars | typographically distinct section of a page that amplifies or highlights the main text |
| simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using 'like' or 'as' |
| symbolism | using a person, place things or event that has its own meaning as a symbol for something outside itself |
| text features | heading, design features, maps, charts, etc., that present visually in text |
| text features | the five most common are: cause and effect, chronological order, comparison and contrast, listing and problem/solution |
| thesis statement | the main point stated at the beginning of an essay |
| stressed syllable | part of a poem's rhythm, the syllables that receive the most voice emphasis |
| unstressed syllable | part of a poem's rhythm, the syllables that when read aloud received the least voice emphasis |
| clauses | a group of words containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence |
