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| Antonym | This is a word or phrase that means the opposite of another word or phrase. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 equally weighted grammatical structure. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Almanac | This is a magazine or book that contains weather forecasts, statistics, or other information of use or interest to readers. |
| Argumentation | This is the kind of writing that tries to persuade readers to accept an author's opinions. |
| Audience | This is whoever will be reading or listening to a piece of work/speech. |
| Author's Purpose | This is the reason for creating written work. |
| Chronological Order | This is the arrangement of events in the order in which they occur. |
| Coherence | This is writing that expresses ideas in a clear, logic way, where reasonable explanations are given or can be deduced by the reader from inference. |
| Conclusion | This wraps up a piece of writing and reminds readers of the thesis. |
| Exposition | This is the part of the plot that introduces the characters, the setting, and the basic situation. |
| Expository Text | This is a mode of writing whose purpose is to convey information or to explain and establish the validity of an idea in a logical, clear, and concrete manner. |
| Journal | This is a daily autobiographical account of events and personal reactions. |
| Narrative Text | This tells the events and actions of a story. |
| Periodical | This is a publication issued at regular intervals of more than one day. |
| Perspective | This is a writer's point of view about a particular subject, and is often influenced by their beliefs or by events in their lives. |
| Persuasive Text | This attempts to convince a reader to adopt a particular opinion or course of action. |
| Prewriting | This the the first stage in the writing process, used to focus ideas and find good topics. |
| Primary Source | This is an original document or firsthand account. |
| Proofread | This is the process of making marks on a written document to correct errors. |
| Propaganda | This is an extreme form of persuasion intended to prejudice and incite the reader or listener to action either for or against a particular cause or position. |
| Publisher | This is an institution or organization that prints and releases written work. |
| Purpose | This is an author’s intention, reason, or drive for writing the piece. |
| 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. |
| Supporting Evidence | These are the facts or details that back up a main idea, theme, or thesis. |
| Thesaurus | This is a book of synonyms. |
| 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. |
| Active Voice | This is used when the subject of a sentence performs the action. |
| Aesthetic | This has to do with the beauty of something rather than its usefulness. |
| Analogy | This is a comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar. |
| Anecdote | This is a brief story about an interesting incident. |
| Cause And Effect | This is the relationship between two or more events in which one event brings about another. |
| 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. |
| Fluency | This is the ability to speak, read, or write a language; automatic word recognition, decoding, and checking for meaning. |
| 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. |
| Monologue | This is a long, uninterrupted speech by a character in a play, story, or poem. |
| 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. |
| Point Of View | This is the perspective from which a story is told. |
| Short Story | This is a brief work of fiction. It resembles a novel but his a simpler plot and setting and fewer characters. |
| Strategy | This is any kind of mental action used by a student to comprehend and make meaning out of a reading text. |
| 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. |
| Transcript | This documentation is the record in printed form of what was said. |
| Active Voice | This is used when the subject of a sentence performs the action. |
| Aesthetic | This has to do with the beauty of something rather than its usefulness. |
| Analogy | This is a comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar. |
| Anecdote | This is a brief story about an interesting incident. |
| Cause And Effect | This is the relationship between two or more events in which one event brings about another. |
| 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. |
| Dialogue | These are the words spoken by characters in a literary work. |
| 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. |
| Fluency | This is the ability to speak, read, or write a language; automatic word recognition, decoding, and checking for meaning. |
| 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. |
| Monologue | This is a long, uninterrupted speech by a character in a play, story, or poem. |
| 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. |
| Point Of View | This is the perspective from which a story is told. |
| Short Story | This is a brief work of fiction. It resembles a novel but his a simpler plot and setting and fewer characters. |
| Speech | This is a talk or public address. |
| Strategy | This is any kind of mental action used by a student to comprehend and make meaning out of a reading text. |
| 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. |
| Transcript | This documentation is the record in printed form of what was said. |
| Almanac | This is a magazine or book that contains weather forecasts, statistics, or other information of use or interest to readers. |
| Argumentation | This is the kind of writing that tries to persuade readers to accept an author's opinions. |
| Audience | This is whoever will be reading or listening to a piece of work/speech. |
| Author's Purpose | This is the reason for creating written work. |
| Bibliography | This is a list of written works or other sources on a particular subject. |
| Conventions | In writing, this is the trait to measure standard writing and the editing processes of spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization, and paraphrasing. |
| Draft | This is a preliminary version of a piece of writing. |
| 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. |
| Exposition | This is the part of the plot that introduces the characters, the setting, and the basic situation. |
| Expository Text | This is a mode of writing whose purpose is to convey information or to explain and establish the validity of an idea in a logical, clear, and concrete manner. |
| Formal Language | This is used by writers of scholarly books. It usually has longer sentences and a greater variety of words than everyday speech. Slang, contractions, and jargon are avoided. |
| Informal Language | This is what people use in everyday speech. It usually consists of fairly short sentences and simple vocabulary. |
| Introduction | This is the beginning of a written work that explains what will be found in the main part. |
| Journal | This is a daily autobiographical account of events and personal reactions. |
| Narrative Text | This tells the events and actions of a story. |
| Paragraph | This is a section in a piece of writing that discusses a particular point or topic. It always begins with a new line, usually with indentation. |
| Periodical | This is a publication issued at regular intervals of more than one day. |
| Perspective | This is a writer's point of view about a particular subject, and is often influenced by their beliefs or by events in their lives. |
| Persuasive Text | This attempts to convince a reader to adopt a particular opinion or course of action. |
| Primary Source | This is an original document or firsthand account. |
| Proofread | This is the process of making marks on a written document to correct errors. |
| Propaganda | This is an extreme form of persuasion intended to prejudice and incite the reader or listener to action either for or against a particular cause or position. |
| Publisher | This is an institution or organization that prints and releases written work. |
| Purpose | This is an author’s intention, reason, or drive for writing the piece. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Supporting Evidence | These are the facts or details that back up a main idea, theme, or thesis. |
| Technical Writing | This is writing that communicates specific information about a particular subject, craft, or occupation. |
| Thesaurus | This is a book of synonyms. |
| 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. |
