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| Oxymoron | Two words with opposite meanings put together for a special effect. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlike things that have something in common. |
| Moral | Lesson in a piece of literature. |
| Narration | Writing that tells a story or recounts an event. |
| Narrative Nonfiction | A true story that contains all the elements of plot. |
| Objective | Relating information in an impersonal manner without feelings or opinions. |
| Parallelism | Repeating certain grammatical structure (words |
| Paraphrase: | To use your own words to restate the author's ideas. |
| Partial quotations | When the writer chooses to leave out part of a quotation an ellipsis is used to show the omission. Passive voice |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object |
| Plot | The action or events that take place in a dramatic or narrative work. |
| Rising action | events or actions that build to the climax |
| Climax | turning point of the action |
| falling action | events after the climax |
| Resolution | resolves loose ends in the plot. |
| Protagonist | The central character in a story or drama with whom you identify. |
| Persuasive | Writing that is meant to change a reader's thinking or action. |
| Plagiarism | The presentation of another writer's ideas or words as if they were your own without acknowledging the source. Academic theft. |
| Point of View | The position or angle from which a story is told. |
| Primary research | Firsthand information collected by conducting interviews, questionnaires, surveys, and direct recorded observations. |
| Pronoun-Antecedent agreement | A pronoun and the word it refers to are the same in number, gender, and person. |
| Pun | Play on words (usually involves homonyms) |
| Satire | a literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society. |
| Short quotation | A direct quotation of four typed lines or fewer worked into the body of the text with quotation marks. |
| Soliloquy | In drama, this is a speech in which a character speaks thoughts aloud, thinking that no one can hear him. |
| Subjective | Thinking or writing that includes personal feelings, attitudes, and opinions. |
| Subordinating conjunction | Introduces a subordinate or dependent clause |
| Summary | Writing that presents the main points of a larger work in condensed form. |
| Symbol | A concrete object used to represent an idea. |
| Theme | The message in a piece of writing |
| Thesis Statement | A sentence that states the purpose or main idea of an essay. |
| Title page / cover page | The front page of a document which indicates title, general class information as required by the instructor. |
| Tone | The writer's attitude toward her or his subject. |
| Transitions | Words or phrases that connect or ties ideas together. |
| Verbal | Formed from a verb |
| Works cited page | The section of the research paper which includes all of the sources the writer has cited in the written text. |
