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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Compare | To examine |
| Contrast | To compare in order to show differences |
| Fact | Can be proven |
| Opinion | Cant be proven |
| Identify | Recognize something and be able to say what it is |
| Insignificant | Having little or no meaning |
| Irrelevant | Not a having a connection with |
| Relevant | Having a logical connection with |
| Significant | Having an important meaning |
| Description | It lists characteristics, features, and examples |
| Problem and solution | Figuring out a way to solve the problem |
| Cause and effect | Explains 1 or more causes and the resulting effects |
| Sequence | Lists items or events in numerical or chronological order |
| Comparison | How 2 or more things are alike or different |
| Hyperbole | The use of exaggeration |
| Expository writing | Types of writing in which the writer employs 1 or more of writing techniques |
| Reflective writing | A brief work that presents a writers feelings |
| Myth | Demeter and Persephone |
| Legend | The legend of St. Patrick |
| Folk Tale | The Cut off |
| Tall Tale | Paul Bunyan and babe the blue ox |
| Fable | The ant and the grasshopper |
| Epic | Pereus |
| Reflective | In search of our mothers Gardens |
| Expository | Life without gravity |
| Reflective | I am a native north american |
| Expository | What makes a Remembrandt a Remembrandt |
| Expository | Textbooks and User manuals |
| Expository | Government documents and legal papers |
| Reflective | Thank you notes and journal entries |
| Reflective | Memoirs and historical recollections |
| Similarities and differences | 2 reasons to write compare and contrast essays |
| Get Someone to do something, grab readers attention and make the story interesting | 3 reasons to consider when writing a persuasive essay |
| Worry about tomorrow today | The moral of the ant and the grasshopper |
| Ant | What character does the right thing in the ant and the grasshopper? |
| River boat pilots | What ordinary people is the cut off about |
| Admit your mistakes | The moral of the cut off |
| Jesus | St Patrick came to Ireland to teach about? |
| Yes | Did St. Patrick really exist? |
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