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| Active Voice | This is used when the subject of a sentence performs the action. |
| Advertisement | This is a public announcement promoting a product or service. |
| 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. |
| Argumentation | This is the kind of writing that tries to persuade readers to accept an author's opinions. |
| 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. |
| Novel | This is a long work of fiction. It has a complicated plot, many characters, a significant theme, and varied settings. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
