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| 128462882 | Hook | The first sentence in your introduction meant to grab the reader's attention. | |
| 128462883 | Background Information | Gives detail, providing a context for the points being made in an essay. | |
| 128462884 | Thesis Statement | The last sentence in your introduction. It includes your opinion on the subject and provides the reader with the focus of the essay. | |
| 128462885 | Topic Sentence | The first sentence in your body paragraphs; it reveals the paragraphs main idea and ties it to the thesis statement. | |
| 128462886 | Concrete Detail | The evidence you provide to support your thesis statement and topic sentences. | |
| 128462887 | Commentary | Sentences that clarify or explain the relevance of your ideas or concrete detail.It is an expression of your opinion. | |
| 128462888 | Transition Sentence | A sentence that links the main idea of separate paragraphs. | |
| 128462889 | Allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | |
| 128462890 | Metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things. | |
| 128462891 | Simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as." | |
| 128462892 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | |
| 128462893 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor. | |
| 128462894 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds | |
| 128462895 | Stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem | |
| 128462896 | Meter | the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that can establish the rhythm of a poem | |
| 128462897 | Persona/Speaker | Persona may be the voice of the poet --acting as a narrator-- or a created character. | |
| 128462898 | Diction | a writer's or speaker's choice of words | |
| 128462899 | Rhetorical Technique | contrast, repetition, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, rhetorical question | |
| 128462900 | Attitude | the relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience | |
| 128462901 | Tone | The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters (e.g., serious or humorous). | |
| 128473918 | Mood | the overall emotion created by a work of literature | |
| 294120693 | Figurative Language | Language that uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning. | |
| 294120694 | Caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse. | |
| 294120695 | Verse | writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | |
| 294120696 | End-Stopped | A line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, and exclamation point, or a question mark. | |
| 294120697 | Enjambment | The continuation of the sense of grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next. | |
| 294120698 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | |
| 294120700 | Pun | a play on words that exploit the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. | |
| 294120701 | Irony | a contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens |
