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  • argument
    a reason or set of reasons given with the hope of persuading others that an idea is right or wrong.
  • describe
    tell all about
  • word choice
    words that an author chooses to use, usually for a specific reason
  • plot
    what a story is about; main events
  • text structure
    how a text is organized; cause and effect, chronological, compare and contrast, questions and answer
  • stanza
    a group of lines in a poem
  • speaker
    the person readers imagine to be saying the thing out loud or telling the story
  • theme
    life lesson
  • metaphor
    type of figurative language that states that one thing is another thing; directly compares two things
  • imagery
    descriptive language to help the reader to better imagine the text (see, hear, smell, taste, feel)
  • convey
    make known or understandable
  • distinguish
    point out how something is different
  • alliteration
    using the same letter or sound at the beginning of words, usually in poetry
  • key concept
    main points or ideas
  • simile
    type of figurative language that compares two things using like or as
  • personification
    type of figurative language where an idea or an animal is given human qualities
  • suggest
    state or express; cause someone to think about something
  • affect
    to act on; produce a change; have an influence on something else
  • author's purpose
    the reason why an author writes a text; to give information, to convince or persuade, to entertain
  • idiom
    type of figurative language that cannot be taken literally
  • attitude
    feelings or opinions about something
  • character traits
    words used to describe a person or character's personality or behavior
  • foreshadow
    a warning about future events
  • conflict
    problem
  • flashback
    a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story
  • contribute
    how something is part of something else; help to cause something else to happen
  • technique
    a skillful or efficient way of doing or achieving something; a skill an author uses to show their craft
  • explain
    tell about; make clear
  • narrator
    who is telling the story
  • chronological
    starting with the earliest and following the order in which they occurred (dates, in sequence)
  • quotation
    a group of words taken from a text or speech
  • identify
    to recognize someone or something and say or prove who or what that person or thing is
  • express
    shows; says; convey in words
  • hyperbole
    type of figurative language using exaggerated statements or claims
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