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| to ridicule or mock ideas, persons, events, or doctrines, or to make fun of human foibles or weaknesses. |
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| the specific words, incidents, images, or events the author uses to create a scene or narrative are referred to as this |
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| the order in which a writer presents information, like chronological orders, spatial order, order of importance, or order of complexity |
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| a commonly used figure of speech that compares the words, using "like" or "as" |
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| the unconventional, very informal language of a particular sub-group of a culture, acceptable in formal writing only if used purposefully |
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| the use of certain words or information that results in a biased viewpoint |
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| the narrator of a story, poem, or drama; a fictional persona, not the author |
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| names individual objects, qualities or actions within a class or group, instead of general ones; good writing judiciously balances the general with this |
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| a means by which a writer achieves his purpose, including rhetorical decisions about organization, paragraph structure, syntax and diction |
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| the individual manner in which a writer expresses his ideas, created by diction, syntax and organization |
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| the content of an essay, or what it is about |
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| writing that relies heavily on personal interpretation, sometimes called impressionistic writing |
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| an arguement that utilizes deductive reasioning and consits of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion, example: "All trees that lose leaves are deciduous. Maple trees lose their leaves. Therefore, maple trees are deciduous. |
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| a person, place, or thing that represents something beyond itself, often a complex set of ideas. |
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| a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word |
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| the way words are arranged in a sentence, or word order |
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| the specialized vocabulary of a trade or profession, used with an awareness of the audience; jargon |
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| a feeling of excitement and expectation the reader feels because of the conflict, mood, or atmosphere of the work |
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| the way the elements of a work of prose or poetry are joined together, associated with the style of the author |
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| the central idea of a work |
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| a statement of the main idea of an essay; controlling idea |
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| a word or phrase set off at the beginning of an essay to identify the subject, to capture the main idea of the essay, or to attract the reader's attention |
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| the way the author presents a subject, resulting from diction, sentece structure, purpose, and attitude |
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| states the central idea of a paragraph and thus limits and controls the subject of the paragraph, most often at the beginning of the paragraph |
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| words or phrases that link sentences, paragraphs, and larger units of a composition to achieve coherence, including parallelism, pronoun references, conjunctions, repetitions of key ideas, and many conventional expressions of these. |
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| when an author assigns less significance to an event or thing than it deserves |
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| when all the words, sentences, and paragraphs in an essay contribute to its thesis, harmoniously supporting a single idea or purpose |
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| how the speaker of a literary work presents himself to the reader, or grammatically the active or passive this |
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| the five major stages of writing, which are prewriting, writing drafts, revising, editing, and publicating |
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| a particuluar breech of sense in a sentence, when a word is used with two adjacent words in the same construction, but only makes literal sense with one of them, example: "She carried an old tapestry bag and a walk that revealed a long history of injury." |
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