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| sentence | a string of words satisfying grammatical rules of a language |
| fragment | a piece broken off or cut off of something else |
| run-on | (verse) without a rhetorical pause between lines - multiple sentences merged together without proper punctuation |
| period | (1) amount of time; (2) ending punctuation in a sentence |
| essay | an analytic or interpretive literary composition |
| fiction | a literary work based on the imagination |
| nonfiction | prose writing that is not formed by the imagination |
| historical | of or relating to the study of recorded time |
| thesis | an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument |
| noun | a content word referring to a person, place, thing or action |
| verb | a word denoting an action, occurrence, or state of existence |
| subject | some situation or event that is thought about |
| adjective | the word class that qualifies or describes a noun or pronoun |
| dependent | cannot stand on its own |
| independent | free from external control and constraint |
| clause | (1) a separate section of a legal document, (2) a part of a sentence |
| active | characterized by energetic movement |
| passive | lacking in energy or will |
| comma | a punctuation mark (,) indicating the separation of elements |
| semicolon | a punctuation mark used to connect independent clauses |
| figurative | not literal |
| symbolic | relating to or using arbitrary signs |
| plot | the story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc. |
| setting | the physical position of something |
| exposition | a systematic interpretation or explanation of a topic or story |
| resolution | a statement that solves a problem |
| climax | the decisive moment in a novel or play |
| compare | examine and note the similarities or differences of |
| contrast | the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared |
| simile | a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity |
| personification | attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas or nonhuman things |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| hypothesis | a tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested |
| oxymoron | conjoined contradictory terms |
| irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs |
| tone | a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author |
| mood | a characteristic state of feeling |
| rising action | a series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest, and tension in a narrative. In literary works it includes all decisions, characters' flaws, and background circumstances that together create turns and twists leading to a climax. |
| falling action | parts of a story after the climax and before the very end |
