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arrangement of parts into a whle; singleness of purpose; continuity |
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a systematic arrangement of important parts; a systematic way of developing and arranging ideas |
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beginning step to put one's ideas into sentences and paragraphs(rough draft) |
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refining compositon(writing) to make each sentence as concise and accurate as possible as well as correcting errors in mechanics(capitalization and punctuation);rewriting and correcting drafts to umprove their quality |
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checking compositons(writing) for errors in grammer, mechanics, and spelling; to make written material suitable for presentation by correcting or midifying it |
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preparing printed material for publication or distribution |
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a typed of writing that tells or relates events(relates what occurs) |
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Informative/Informational mode |
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a typed of writing tha provides new information |
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Expository mode/Expositon |
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a type of writing that gives information about or explains a subject |
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Persuasive mode/Persuasion |
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a tye of writing that attempts to induce someone to undertake a course of action or adopt a particular point of view(persuade) |
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a compostition that takes a single position(viewpoint,opinion) on a topic and develops ideas supporting that postition |
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a compostiton that gives a written reaction to a particular liteary stimulus |
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an authoritative set of direction, especially for a written compostion(may also be called a writer's checklist) |
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a concise summary of a text |
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presentation of the substance(most important ideas)of a text in a more concise or condensed form |
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Character/Characterzation |
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the combination of qulailties or features that distinguishes one person,group, or thing from another;charactrization refers to the personality of the fictional character as well as to the methods by which a writer creates that personality |
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the time and place of the action of the story |
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the sequence of events or main story in a narrative or drama |
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the struggle betwwen the opposing forces;the probelem to be resolved |
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the central or conrolling idea of a work of literature, usually implied;often expressed as a general statement about life |
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a prevailing atmosphere or feeling an author creates in the reader |
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an author's attitude toward the audience or the work as expressed in thw work |
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the vantage point or perspective from which a work is told |
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the prevailing tone or mood of a literary work, often but not always determine by setting, the emotional aura which the wok bears and which establishes the reader's expectations and atitudes |
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hints of future events the keep the reader's interest |
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a lierary device in which an earlier event i inserted into the normal chronological order or a narrative |
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a dramatic form in which a character usually alone on stage talks to himself or herself to reveal his or her thought without addessing a listiner |
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occurs when the reading audience is aware of something that hte character in the work doe not know |
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a voice or character representing the speaker in a liteary work;an assumed role that tells a story |
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a figure of speech the expresses an extreme or fanciful exaggeration |
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a figure of speech that expresses an implied comparison of two basically dissimilar perosons or things |
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a figure of speech that compares two umlike thing usually using th words like or as to state the comparison |
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a figure of speech that gives lifelike qualities to a nonliving thing,idea, or quality |
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a seemingly contradictory statement tha t may acutually express truth |
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a figure of speech that fuses two contradictory or opposing ideas |
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a speech form or an expression of a language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the indidual meaning of its elements |
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the use of a person,place,object,place,or idea to represent itself and somehting beyond itself at the same time |
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Descriptive language used in literature to re-create sensory experiences;usually appeals to one of the five senses;may also ve called (sensory details) |
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General term applied to literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictoions; situational irony applies when the totally unexpected or almost unbelievable occurs |
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An instance or indirect reference to something the reader is expected to understand without Explanation |
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Author's Intent/Author's Purpose |
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the writer's reason for writing the selection'states what the writer hoped to accomplish by writin thw work;often stated as to (persuade, to inform, to tell a story, to describe) |
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Repetition of initial consonat sounds |
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The use of words that imitate the sound(buzz,snap,crackle,pop) |
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Rhyme/End Rhyme/ Internal rhyme |
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repetition of the same or imilar words at the ends of lines of poetry or repetiton of a sound in the line with similar sound at the end of the line |
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the rise and fall of stressed and unstessed syllables |
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the act or process or instance or repeating or being repeated |
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