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| primary source historical | a firsthand or eyewitness account of an event |
| parable | a short story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle or moral lesson |
| research paper | academic writing used to synthesize others' ideas to support or contradict one's own |
| picture book | a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who may not yet learned to read |
| thesis paper | a writing on a particular topic |
| word play | a play on words;pun |
| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates a sound |
| irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning; incongruity between what might be expected |
| allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person or event |
| allteration | repeated consonant sound at the beginning of each word |
