| A | B |
|---|
| concrete detail | fact |
| commentary | opinion |
| thesis | most important sentence |
| topic sentence | intoduces the main point of the paragraph |
| Introduction | contains the thesis |
| Conclusion | summarizes the paper in a new way |
| title | The name given to the paper |
| subject and opinion | the two parts of the thesis |
| essay | a paper on one topic |
| ratio | 1 concrete detail topne commentary |
| symbol | something that represents something else |
| alliteration | when words begin with the same letters |
| irony | a strange twist of fate |
| theme | the main idea of the story |
| protagonist | the main character |
| antagonist | against the main character |
| narrator | person telling the story |
| I/I think/in my opinion | words never used in a formal essay |
| literal | the actual meaning of a word |
| imagery | a picture formed in a reader's mind |
| foreshadow | hint of what will happen |
| flashback | a memory of something from the past |
| personification | giving human characteristics to nonliving things |
| figurative | not the actual meaning of a word |
| connotation | the suggested/implied meaning of a word |
