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| realism | a style of writing in which people and events are presented the way they actually are in life. |
| memoir | type of nonfiction, like an autobiography, it often focuses on a specific event or part of a person's life. |
| contrast | shows how things are different |
| comparison | shows how two things are alike |
| plain folks | propaganda technique that uses people who represent the "typical" target of the ad; this typical person just like you would buy this. |
| support | sentences that work together to explain, illustrate or provide evidence for a single topic sentence. |
| fact | anything known to have happened, or to be true. |
| tone | the feeling the writer shows toward his or her subject. |
| apprentice | a person who works for an experienced worker to learn a skill |
| historic | famous or important in history or potentially so. |
| opinion | a belief based on what seems to one to be probably true. |
| procrastinate | delay or postpone action; put off doing something. |
| rabble | a crowd of people who are hard to control |
| verb phrase | consists of one or more helping verbs followed by a main verb. |
| essence | the most important qualities of a person or thing. |
| strawman | A logical fallacy when your opponent over-simplifies or misrepresents your argument to make it easier to attack or refute. |
| red herring | A logical fallacy where the person changes the subject to direct attention away from the original argument. Something that misleads or distracts from relevant or important questions. |
| future tense | A verb that expresses action that will take place in the future. |
| Challenge | the situation of being faced with, something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a person's ability. |
| irregular verb | verbs with no pattern in the past tense or past participle tense. |
