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A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning may have a significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas such as charity, greed, or envy.

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Allegory

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An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event

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Allusion

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The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another

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Analysis

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The position or claim the author establishes. Supported by valid evidence, balanced by the inclusion of counter arguments

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Argument/position

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The author’s intent either to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people or to persuade or convince his/her audience to do or not do something

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Author’s purpose

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The subtle presence of a positive or negative approach toward a topic

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Bias

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A written account of another persons life

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Biography

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Place together characters, situations, or ideas to show common and/or differing featured in literary selections

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Compare/contrast

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A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions

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Conflict/problem

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The range of associations that a word or phase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning

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Connotation

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The generally accepted importance of a work representing a given culture

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Cultural significance

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Support provided to mark an assertion as reasonable

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Defense of a claim

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A variety of a language distinct from the standard variety in pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary

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Dialect

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An authors choice of words, phrases, sentence structure and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning and tone

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Diction

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The genre of literature represented by works intended for the stage; a work to be performed by actors on stage, radio, or television; play

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Drama

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The written text of a play, which includes the dialogue between characters, stage directions and often other expository info

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Dramatic script

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To make a judgement or decision based on reasoning rather than direct or implicit statement

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Draw conclusion

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Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the significance, worth or quality of something; to assess

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Evaluate

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To make understandable, plain or clear

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Explain

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Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text

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Explicit

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A narrative device, often used at the start of a work that provides necessary background info about the characters and their circumstances

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Exposition

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The part of a literary plot that is characterized by diminishing tensions and the resolution of the plots conflicts and complications

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Falling actions

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Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling

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Figurative language

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Point of view relates events as they are perceived by a single character. Their opinions

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First person

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Center of interest or attention

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Focus

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A conclusion drawn from specific info that is used to make a broad statement about a topic or person

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Generalization

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A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, techniques or content(prose or poetry)

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Genre

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Any visual cues on a page of text that offer additional info to guide readers comprehension

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Heading, graphics, and charts

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Though unexpressed in the actual text, meaning that may be understood by the reader; implied

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Implicit

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Nonfiction written primarily to convey factual information. Informational text comprise the majority of printed material adults read (text books newspapers reports directions brochures technical manuals)

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Informational text

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Do you give reasons through an explanation to convey and represent the meaning or understanding of the text

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Interpret

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The use of a word or phrase committee exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning incongruity between the actual result of the sequence of events and the expected result

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Irony

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Points of information in the text strongly support the meaning or tell the story statement such a fun describe or otherwise provide information about the topic theme or main idea

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Key/supporting details

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Specific word choices in a text that strongly support the tone mood or meaning of the text

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Keywords

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Tool used by the author two in live and provide voice to the text

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Literary device

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Inessential technique used in literature characterization setting plot theme

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Literary element

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Overall structure or shape of the work that frequently follows and establish design forms may refer to a literary type narrative short story or pattern of meter lines and rhymes stanza verse

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Literary form

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A trend or pattern of shared beliefs or practices that Mark and approach to literature realism naturalism romanticism

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Literary movement

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Text that includes literary elements and device is usually associated with fiction to report on actual person’s places or events examples include nature travel text biography memoir and the essay

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Literary nonfiction

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Availing emotions or atmosphere of the word derived from literary devices such as dialogue or literary elements such as setting the mood of a work is not always what might be expected based on its subject matter

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Mood

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A recurring subject theme or idea in a literary work

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Motif

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A story actual or fictional expressed orally or in a text

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Narrative

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A personal view attitude or appraisal

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Opinion

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The structure of the story the sequence in which the author arranges events in a story the structure often includes the rising action climax falling action and the resolution the plot may have a protagonist who is opposed by and antagonist creating what is called conflict

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Plot

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The position of the narrator in relation to the story as indicated by the nares outlook from which the events are depicted the perspective from which a speaker or author recounts a narrative or presents information the authors manor in revealing characters events and ideas the vantage point from which a story is told

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Point of view

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Groups of letters placed before a word to alter its meaning

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Prefix

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Information and at positively or negatively influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people

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Propaganda

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Is an attack on the person instead of an issue

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Name-calling

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Tries to persuade the reader to do things or buy something because it’s popular or because everyone is doing it

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Bandwagons

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Is in an attempt to distract the reader with details not relevant to the argument

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Red herring

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Tries to persuade the reader by using words that appeal to the readers emotions instead of logic or reason

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Emotional appeal

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Attempts to persuade the reader by using a famous person to endorse a product or idea for instants celebrity endorsement

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Testimonial

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Attempts to persuade the reader by repeating and message over and over again

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Repetition

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Mason oversimplified statement about a group based on limited information

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Sweeping generalization stereotyping

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States the conclusion as part of the proof of the argument

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Circular argument

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Attempts to persuade the reader by showing how many people think something is true

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Appeal to numbers facts or statistics

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A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness

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Satire

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Various sentence structures styles in links that can enhance the rhythm of or add emphasis to a piece of text

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Sentence variety

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A literary organizational for that present the order in which tasks are performed

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Sequence of steps

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The time and place in which a story unfolds

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Setting

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Elements of literature that emphasize sound

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Sound devices

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The voice used by an author to tell/narrate a story or poem the speaker is often a created identity and should not automatically be equated with the author

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Speaker

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The rhyming pattern meter grammar and imagery used by poet to convey meaning

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Structure of a poem

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A device in literature where in object represents an idea

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Symbolism

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The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases clauses in sentences

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Syntax

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The authors method of structuring a text the way the text is structured from beginning to end

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Text organization or structure

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A topic of discussion or work a major idea brought enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work maybe stated or implied

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Theme

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The attitude of the author toward the audience characters subject or work itself

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Tone

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The generally excepted importance or value of a work to represent human experience regardless of culture or time period

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Universal significance

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The fluency rhythm and liveliness in a text that make it unique to the author

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Voice

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