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| SCENE | This is a small division of a play that usually happens in a particular place and time |
| Main Idea | This is the central and most important idea of a reading passage. |
| Style | This is the way an author expresses ideas through the use of kinds of words, literary devices, and sentence structure. |
| 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. |
| Theme | This is the message, usually about life or society, that an author wishes to convey through a literary work. |
| Tone | This is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character. |
| Allusion | This is the reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, or religion with which a reader is likely to be familiar. |
| Foreshadowing | This is the use of hints in written works about what will happen later. |
| Irony | This is the contrast between appearance and reality or what is expected and what actually happens. |
| Main Idea | This is the central and most important idea of a reading passage. |
| Active Voice | This is used when the subject of a sentence performs the action. |
| Anecdote | This is a brief story about an interesting incident. |
| Argumentation | This is the kind of writing that tries to persuade readers to accept an author's opinions. |
| Connotation | This is the emotional feelings and associations that go beyond the dictionary definition of a word. |
| Context Clues | These are in the text surrounding a word and give hints for the meaning of the word. |
| Critique | This is a written or spoken evaluation of what is and is not effective in a literary work. |
| Denotation | This is the dictionary definition of a word. |
| Diction | This is the writer's choice of words, including the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, and the vividness of the language. |
| 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. |
| Essay | This is a short, nonfiction work about a particular subject. |
| Fact | This is a statement that can be proved to be true. |
| Implied Meaning | This is a suggested, but not stated, definition. |
| Inference | This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with something that you already know to make sense of what you read. |
| Media | This is the main means of mass communication. |
| Mood | This is the feeling that an author wants readers to have while reading. |
| Opinion | This is a statement that reflects a writer's belief about a topic , and it cannot be proved. |
| Paraphrase | This is the restatement of a written work in one's own words that keeps the basic meaning of the original work. |
| Passive Voice | This is used when the subject of a sentence receives the action instead of doing it. |
| Style | This is the way an author expresses ideas through the use of kinds of words, literary devices, and sentence structure. |
| Theme | This is the message, usually about life or society, that an author wishes to convey through a literary work. |
| Tone | This is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character. |
| Flashback | This is a look back at something that happened at an earlier time |
| Cultural Reference | This is the use of a custom or belief that is not shared by everyone |
| Supporting Details | These are examples that prove the main idea |
| nonfiction | writing that primarily deals with real people, events, and places |
| purpose | the reason why an author writes a piece |
| description | a kind of writing that is intended to create a mood or emotion, or to recreate a person, place, thing, or event |
| narration | a kind of writing that tells a story |
| persuasion | a kind of writing that tries to convince the reader to act or think in a certain way |
| dialogue | written conversation |
| dialect | A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people (You vs. Y'all) |
| stereotype | a fixed concept or idea of a person that does not allow for any individuality; for example, all old people drive slowly and smell funny |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| pun | a play on words |
| excerpt | a small piece taken from a larger piece |
