4832605374 | Prose | classification of writing; refers to fiction and nonfiction - technically anything NOT poetry or drama. | 0 | |
4832606692 | Clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and its verb. | 1 | |
4832607981 | Co-ordination | if two ideas are of equal importance, the writer may indicate this relationship by placing both ideas in independent clauses. | 2 | |
4832611216 | Subordination | if one of the two ideas is of less importance than the other, the writer may indicate this relationship by placing the less important idea in a subordinate clause. | 3 | |
4832618365 | Antecedent | grammatically, the noun to which a pronoun refers. | 4 | |
4832618607 | Loose sentence | a sentence that is grammatically complete before its end. | 5 | |
4832619788 | Periodic sentence | a sentence that is NOT grammatically complete until its last phrase. | 6 | |
4832620242 | Transition | a word or phrase that logically lings different ideas; a signal of a shift from one idea to another. | 7 | |
4832621017 | Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively | 8 | |
4832621770 | Rhetorical modes | methods of expression: Exposition, description, narration, persuasion. | 9 | |
4832622312 | Discourse | spoken or written language, including literary works. | 10 | |
4832622610 | Diction | the writer's word choice. | 11 | |
4832623006 | Syntax | the sentence structure of a piece of writing. | 12 | |
4832624013 | Voice | the way a written work conveys an author's attitude. | 13 | |
4832624764 | Persona | a fictional voice that a writer adopts to tell a story, determined by a subject matter and audience. | 14 | |
4832625481 | Tone | the characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward a subject, characters, or audience. | 15 | |
4832626322 | Infer/inference | to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. | 16 | |
4832627431 | Objectivity | an impersonal or unbiased presentation of events an characters. | 17 | |
4832628064 | Subjectivity | a personal presentation of events and characters influenced by the author's feelings and opinions. | 18 | |
4832628672 | Genre | a type of literary work such as a novel or poem; also sub-genres within the larger genres. | 19 | |
4851703478 | Epigraph | a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to express the theme | 20 | |
4851706555 | Exposition | explanation; also, the immediate revelation to the audience of setting and other background information | 21 | |
4851710260 | Narration | the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama | 22 | |
4851714127 | Description | the picturing in words of something of someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sound , taste, smell or touch. | 23 | |
4851721385 | Argumentation | writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting reasoned arguments. | 24 | |
4851725590 | Parrallelism | the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side-by-side and making them similar inform. | 25 | |
4851737858 | Juxtapose | place "things"side-by-side for the sake of comparison and/or contrast | 26 | |
4851746454 | Active Voice | the subject of a sentence "does"the action that its verb expresses. | 27 | |
4851749684 | Passive Voice | the subject of a sentence receives the action indicated by the verb rather than "doing" it. | 28 | |
4851754853 | Nonfiction Novel | the genre Truman Capote claimed to have "create" with his writing of In Cold Blood. | 29 |
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