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| Narration | A strategy of development; relating events or actions over a period of time, usually in chronological order. |
| Order of Importance | Way of arranging details, from least to most important or from most to least. |
| Perception | An observation or insight. |
| Personal Essay | Writing in which an author explores and shares an experience that was especially important to him/her. |
| Persuasive Writing | Aims at convincing people to accept an idea or to take action. |
| Point of View | The vantage point, or position, from which a writer tells a story or describes a subject. |
| Purpose | A reason for writing or speaking--to inform, persuade, intruct, entertain. |
| Setting | That in which something is; where a story takes place. |
| Simile | Figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared, usually by like or as. |
| Spatial Order | Way of arranging details in a paragraph or compostition according to location. |
| Stanza | Also called a verse, one of a series of generally uniform groups of lines into which a poem may be divided. |
| Style | A writer's unique way of adapting language to suit different occasions. |
| Subordinate | Belonging to a lower rank or status; secondary; of a clause or phrase that adds meaning to another, but makes no sense by itself. |
| Theme | The underlying meaning or message a writer wants to communicate to readers. |
| Thesis Statement | Announces the limited topic of a composition and the main, or unifying, idea about the topic. |
| Tone | The feeling or attitude a writer conveys about a topic. |
| Topic Sentence | Expresses main idea of a paragraph. |
