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| 8454338962 | claim | statement essentially arguable but used as a primary point to support or prove an argument | 0 | |
| 8454338963 | counterclaim | a claim made to rebut a previous claim. | 1 | |
| 8454338964 | qualify | "partly agree" | 2 | |
| 8454338965 | concession | admitting a point, acknowledge something | 3 | |
| 8454338966 | anecdote | short story about a real person or event | 4 | |
| 8454338967 | Connotation | Implied meaning of a word (beyond literal) | 5 | |
| 8454338968 | theme | what the work says about the subject as a whole | 6 | |
| 8454338969 | allusion | expression designed to call something to mind indirectly | 7 | |
| 8454338970 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities | 8 | |
| 8454338971 | point of view 1st person | A character is telling the story using "I". | 9 | |
| 8454338972 | 2nd person point of view | when the narrator refers to one of the characters (or the reader) as "You" | 10 | |
| 8454338973 | omniscient point of view (3rd person) | the narrator is capable of knowing, telling, and seeing all | 11 | |
| 8454338974 | frame story | a story within a story | 12 | |
| 8454338975 | Foreshadowing | A warning or indication of a future event | 13 | |
| 8454338976 | Metaphor | figure of speech comparing two different things | 14 | |
| 8454338977 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 15 | |
| 8454338978 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 16 | |
| 8454338979 | irony | expression that means the opposite of what is stated | 17 | |
| 8454439830 | SOAPSTone | Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone | 18 | |
| 8454439831 | AAAWWUBBIS | after, although, as, when, while, until, because, before, if, since | 19 | |
| 8454439832 | FANBOYS | for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so | 20 | |
| 8454439833 | 4 commonly used transition words | however, accordingly, therefore, unfortunately | 21 | |
| 8454439834 | 5 commonly used linking verbs | am, is, are, was, were, be | 22 | |
| 8454439835 | 4 ways to fix a run-on sentence | use a period comma + FANBOYS semicolon semicolon + transition | 23 | |
| 8454439836 | rules for a semicolon | sesperate clauses separate items into a series of clauses transition from clauses | 24 | |
| 8454439837 | 3 ways to use a colon | introduce a list introduce a quote introduce another sentence/summary | 25 | |
| 8454439838 | 4 Comma Rules | use after an opener set off an interrupter set off a closer separate items into series | 26 | |
| 8454439839 | phrase | a group of words that does not contain its own subject or verb | 27 | |
| 8454439840 | clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb | 28 |