| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Annotate | Giving critical commentary or making explanatory notes. |
| Signal words and phrases | Words and phrases that tell us a new idea is coming. |
| Audience | The readers of a piece of writing, who have a specific characteristics that the author must anticipate in or to communicate effectively. |
| Summarize | To make a summary of retelling a story or situation. |
| Main idea | A point or thought being expressed by an author. |
| Inference | The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence. |
| Author's Style | A reflection of the author's personality and purpose for writing. |
| Style | Those components or features of a literary composition that have to do with the form of expression rather than the content of the thought expressed. |
| Persuasive writing | Writing which the writer takes a "for" or "against" stance on an issue in his or her writing. |
| Context clue | A method by which the meaning of unknown words may be obtained by examining the parts of a sentence surrounding the word for definition/explanation clues, restatement/synonym clues, contrast/antonym clues, and inference/ general context clues. |
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