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Characterization:	The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities.
Compare:	Place together characters, situations or ideas to show common or differing features in literary selections.
Conventions of language:	Mechanics, usage and sentence completeness.
Focus:	The center of interest or attention.
Graphic organizer	A diagram or pictorial device that shows relationships.

Meter	The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Narrative	A story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in writing.
Paraphrase	Restate text or passage in other words, often to clarify meaning or show understanding.
Pattern book	A book with a predictable language structure and often written with predictable text; also known as predictable book.
Point of view	The way in which an author reveals characters, events and ideas in telling a story; the vantage point from which the story is told.

Research	A systematic inquiry into a subject or problem in order to discover, verify or revise relevant facts or principles having to do with that subject or problem.
Satire	A literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness.
Sources Primary	Text and/or artifacts that tell or show a first-hand account of an event; original works used when researching.
Secondary Sources	Text and/or artifacts used when researching that are derived from something original.
Style	How an author writes; an author’s use of language; its effects and appropriateness to the author’s intent andtheme.

Theme	A topic of discussion or writing; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work.
Thesis	The basic argument advanced by a speaker or writer who then attempts to prove it; the subject or major argument of a speech or composition.
Tone	The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters (e.g., serious or humorous).
Voice	The fluency, rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer.