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| sermon. any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving MORAL OR SPIRITUAL ADVICE. |
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| deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. |
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| sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse, emotion. IN OTHER WORDS, you should already know this. |
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| to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. |
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| contract between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. |
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| emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. |
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| placing dissimilar items, descriptions, or ideas close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. |
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| type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. if a period were placed at the end of the independent clause, the clause would be a complete sentence. |
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| You should know what this is. |
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| the name of an one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. Changed name or substitute name. "The white house declared" --> "the President declared". |
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indicative mood: factual sentences
subjunctive: used for a doubtful or conditional attitude.
imperative: used for commands |
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