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| Almanac | This is a magazine or book that contains weather forecasts, statistics, or other information of use or interest to readers. |
| Antonym | This is a word or phrase that means the opposite of another word or phrase. |
| Argumentation | This is the kind of writing that tries to persuade readers to accept an author's opinions. |
| Cause And Effect | This is the relationship between two or more events in which one event brings about another. |
| Cognate | These are words that have a common origin. |
| Controlling Image | An image or metaphor that dominates a literary work, especially with respect to conveying a theme. |
| Dialect | This is a form of language that is characteristic of a particular place or by a particular group of people. |
| Dialogue | These are the words spoken by characters in a literary work. |
| Dictionary | This is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology. |
| Editorial | This is an article in a publication or a commentary on television or radio expressing the opinion of its editors, publishers, station, or network. |
| Encyclopedia | This is a comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically. |
| Epistolary Novel | This is a long story written as a letter. |
| Essay | This is a short, nonfiction work about a particular subject. |
| Fact | This is a statement that can be proved to be true. |
| Fixed Form | This means traditional verse form, or a poem that inherits from other poems certain familiar elements of structure including an unvarying number of lines, rhyme, meter, particular themes, tones, and other elements. |
| Form | This is the structure into which a piece of literature is organized. |
| Genre | This is the category or type of literature. |
| Haiku | This is a highly compressed form of Japanese poetry that creates a brief, clear picture in order to produce an emotional reaction in the reader. It relies upon images taken from nature and on the power of suggestion. It has three lines of five, seven, and five syllables each. |
| Informal Language | This is what people use in everyday speech. It usually consists of fairly short sentences and simple vocabulary. |
| Journal | This is a daily autobiographical account of events and personal reactions. |
| Legend | This is a story about mythical beings or supernatural events, usually originally told orally for generations before being written down. |
| Letter | This is a written communication or message addressed to a reader or readers that is usually sent by mail. |
| Logic | This is the reasoning used to reach a conclusion based on a set of assumptions, or it may be defined as the science of reasoning, proof, thinking, or inference. |
| Memoir | This is an account of the personal experiences of an author. |
| Metaphor | This is a direct comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as." |
| Meter | This is the rhythm or regular sound pattern in a piece of poetry. |
| Motivation | This is the wants, needs, or beliefs that cause a character to act or react in a particular way. |
| Multicultural | This relates to, or includes, several cultures rather than only a mainstream culture. |
| Mythology | This is a body or collection of tales belonging to a people and addressing their origin, history, deities, ancestors, and heroes. It explains the actions of gods and goddesses or the cause of natural phenomena and includes supernatural elements. |
| Nonfiction | This is factual writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people, places, objects, or events. |
| Opinion | This is a statement that reflects a writer's belief about a topic , and it cannot be proved. |
| Parallelism | This is a persuasive technique in which an author creates a BALANCED sentence by re-using the same word structure. |
| Poem | This is an arrangement of words in verse. It sometimes rhymes, and expresses facts, emotions, or ideas in a style more concentrated, imaginative and powerful than that of ordinary speech. |
| Primary Source | This is an original document or firsthand account. |
| Propaganda | This is information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause. |
| Rhetorical Strategy | This is a plan an author uses to effectively deliver the intended message in written work. |
| Secondary Source | This is a commentary on an original document or firsthand account. |
| Sequential Order | This is the chronological, or time, order of events in a reading passage. |
| Simile | This is a comparison of two unlike things using the terms "like" or "as". |
| Speech | This is a talk or public address. |
| Structure | This refers to a writer's arrangement or overall design of a literary work. It is the way words, sentences, and paragraphs are organized to create a complete work. |
| Subheading | This is a short title within an article that identifies the beginning of each new topic. |
| Subplot | This is a secondary plot in a work of literature that either explains or helps to develop the main plot. |
| Symbol | This is a person, place, thing, or event that represents something more than itself in a literary work. |
| Synonym | This is a word or phrase that has the same or almost the same meaning as another word or phrase. |
| Syntax | This refers to the ordering of elements in a sentence. |
| Text | This is the main body of a piece of writing or any of the various forms in which writing exists, such as a book, a poem, an article, or a short story. |
| Thesis Statement | This is the way in which the main idea of a literary work is expressed, usually as a generalization that is supported with concrete evidence. |
| Topic Sentence | This is a one-sentence summary of a paragraph's main point. |
