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 alliteration | repeating of beginning consonant sounds |
| anecdote | a brief story used to illustrate or make a point |
| appositive | a word or phrase that identifies or renames a noun or pronoun |
| bibliography | alphabetical order list of books and materials used in a report; works cited |
| caption | a short explanation for an illustration or photograph |
| chronology | details arranged in the order in which they happened (first, next, later, etc.); chronological order |
| conjunction | connects individual words or groups of words (and, or, but, so , because, when) |
| conventions | following grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and paragraphing rules - 6 TRAITS TERM |
| dialect | people from different regions and social groups speak different varities of English, each has it's own vocabulary, pronunciations and grammar, these are forms of English called dialects |
| dialogue | a conversation between two or more characters in a written piece |
| explicit | fully and clearly expressed or defined |
| fallacious reasoning | false logic or thinking |
| flashback | a technique where a writer interrupts a story to go back to explain an earlier event. |
| foreshadow | an indication or a suggestion of beforehand |
| generalizations | an idea or statement that emphasizes the general characteristic rather than the specific details of a subject. |
| implicit | implied or understood without being fully expressed |
| implied | said or told indirectly, suggested without being said directly |
| literal | following the usual or exact meaning of a word or group of words |
| mood | the feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader |
| mythology | traditional story intended to explain some mystery of nature, religious doctrine or cultural belief. Gods and Goddesses have supernatural powers, but human characters do not |
| note taking | writing down key points/main details |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound makes you think of its meaning |
| oxymoron | a technique in which two words with opposite meanings are put together for a specific effect |
| persuade | to convince others |
| plagiarism | claiming someone else's ideas/words as your own |
| preposition | a word that shows position or direction or introduces a prepositional phrase |
| propaganda | a kind of persuasion designed to keep us from thinking for ourselves |
| restate | to say again or in new form |
| skim | to browse quickly over a text looking for specific details |
| symbolism | a concrete or real object used to represent an idea |