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| A method of explaining something unfamiliar by using a comparison of similar things. |
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| An organizational structure of text in which events are placed in the order they occur in time. |
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| A reference, explanation, or comment usually placed below the text on a printed page. |
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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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| A spoken or written composition intending to ser 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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| The center of interest or attention; in writing, the central idea. |
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| The shape,size and general makeup (as of something printed). |
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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 figure of speech which uses a deliberate exaggeration. |
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| A compound of a piece of literature such as a plot or setting in a story. |
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| A reflection of an author's attitude toward a subject of a theme. |
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| One of four traditional forms of composition in speech and writing which tells a story or gives an account of something. |
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| One of four traditional forms of composition in speech and writing which moves the reader by argument or entreaty to a belief or porsition. |
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| Stages include exposition (background), rising action, climas, falling action, and resolution. |
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| In a complex word, the meaningful base form after all affixes are removed, such as read in unreadable |
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| Reporting on or analyzing information from another source. |
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| The arrangement in which things follow in a logical order or a recurrent pattern. |
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| To examine or read something quickly, but selectively, for a particular purpose. |
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| An author's distinctive manner of expression. |
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| Mapping technique using overlapping circles showing features either unique or common to two or more concepts. |
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