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| Active voice | The subject of the sentence performs the action. |
| Allusion | A reference to a historical or literary person, place or event with which the reader is assumed to be familiar. |
| Analogy | A comparison of ideas or objects that are completely different but that are alike in one important way. |
| Anecdote | A slice of life or short account of an interesting or humorous incident used to make a point. |
| Antecedent | An antecedent is the noun or pronoun to which a pronoun refers. |
| Annotating | Writing notes |
| Antagonist | The principal character in opposition to the main character or protagonist. |
| Antithesis | Opposing idea. |
| Appositive | A noun or phrase that explains one or more word in a sentence. (It renames a word). |
| Bibliography | This refers to any source the writer read or studied but did not refer to in written text. |
| Body / Supportive paragraphs | The kinds of paragraphs found in the middle of the essay which contain a topic sentence which supports the thesis statement. This type of paragraph is likely to have explanations, examples, quotes as evidence which support the topic sentence. |
| Character | The people and sometimes the animals who participate in the action of a literary work. A static character tends to stay in fixed position throughout the story. A dynamic character evolves as individual |
| Chunking | To divide up a text into chunks or sections by main or like ideas. |
| Clarifying | Asking questions, rereading, or researching a reading passage to make its meaning clearer. |
| Cognates | Roots of words that are similar in more than one language. |
| Clause | a group of words with a verb and its subject: an independent one can stand by itself and be a sentence. A dependent (subordinate) one does not express a complete thought and cannot stand by itself. |
| Clich | An overused word or phrase. |
| Coherence | The arrangement of ideas in such a way that the reader can easily follow from one point to the next. |
| Comma splice (CS) | This results when two independent clauses are connected incorrectly with only a comma. |
| Conclusion paragraph | This is the last paragraph of the essay which restates the thesis of the paper |
| Conflict | The plot of a story |
| Conjunction | A word that links other words or groups of words. |
| Conjunctive adverb | joins the clauses of a compound sentence (however, therefore, yet,) |
| Connotation | The attitudes and feelings that a word evokes. |
| Context Clues | The synonyms |
| Coordinating Conjunction | these words connect related words |
| Dialect | A form of language as it is spoken in a particular geographic area or by a particular social or ethnic group. |
