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| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| 1st person point of view | when the narrator is a character who tells everything in his own words and uses pronouns such as I, me, and we. |
| 2nd person point of view | When the narrator uses the pronoun YOU and addresses the reader |
| 3rd person point of view | when the narrator outside of the action describes events and characters and uses pronouns such as it, he and she. |
| 3rd person limited | when the narrator perceives events only as an observer or only through the eyes of one character |
| 3rd person omniscient | when the narrator is "all knowing" and knows the feelings of all the characters. |
| objective point of view | 3rd person narrator presents characters and their actions without personally judging those actions |
| subjective point of view | 1st person narrator tends to express his or her personal opinions |
| stereotyping | a broad generalization about something |
| bias | to show favoritism |
| propaganda | ideas or facts or allegations spread deliberately to cause damage or persuade |
| bandwagon | when people start liking somthing just because many others like something |
| argument | an attempt to persuade someone to think a certain way about a debated topic |
| contradictions | direct opposition between things compared; inconsistency |
| conflicting information | ideas that are in opposition to each other |
| author's purpose | when the author writes to entertain, explain or inform, to express an opinion or to persuade readers to believe something |
| compare | the process of identifying similiarities |
| contrast | the pointing out of two or more differences between two or more objects |
| main idea | the central point the writer is making |
| details | many small parts which help make up a story |
| cause and effect | when one event brings on the second event. The second event is the effect. |
| abstract | "open to interpretation" |
| resolve | to find an answer or solution |
| word choice | the decision authors make about which words to use, based on their connotations |
| foreshadowing | the technique of hinting about an event that will occur later in the story |
| sentence structure | the use of variety of sentence types and lengths |
| pace | how the text progresses |
| footnote | comments that appear at the end of a page and explain something on the page |
| solioquy | a speech given by a character to directly communicate thoughts and feelings to the audience |
| summarize | means to tell briefly in your own words what the main ideas are of a piece of writing and omitting unimportant details |
