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| A sentence that makes a vehement statement or conveys strong or sudden emotion. |
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| A question that asks the responder to make a judgment. |
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| Fully or clearly expressed; definite. |
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| A spoken or written composition, intending to set forth or explain. |
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| A story intended to enforce a useful truth, especially one in which animals speak and act like human beings. |
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| A typical error in reasoning that arises commonly in ordinary discourse and renders unsound the argument in which it appears. |
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| Language enriched by word images and figures of speech. |
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| A symbolic interpretation of written work. |
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| Narration in which the point of view is that of the main character. |
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| The technique of stopping the chronological action in a story and shifting to an earlier period to introduce additional information. |
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| A character with only one outstanding trait or feature. |
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| The act of reading easily, smoothly and automatically with a rate appropiate for the text, indicating that students understand meaning. |
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| The center of interest or attention; in writing, the central idea. |
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| The technique of giving clues to coming events in a narrative. |
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| The shape, size and general makeup (as of something printed). |
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| Works of nonfiction such as "how to" books, technical manuals and instructions. |
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| An established class or category or artistic composition or literature. (e.g., poetry, drama or novel) |
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| A verb form that ends in -ing and is used as a noun (e.g., reading is fun) |
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| A propaganda technique in which words have different positigve meanings for individual subjects but are linked to highly valued concepts. |
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| A method of organization of information which incorporates diagrams or other pictorial devices. |
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