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Theme

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Life lesson

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WHAT IS TEXT (TEXTUAL)STRUCTURE?

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A way a writer organizes info

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Inferencing ??

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Drawing a conclusion

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What are synonyms and antonyms???

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S:Same A:opposite

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration

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Alliteration

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Two or more word start with same letter EX: tasty tacos

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Connotation

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Word or phrase that can be used in a positive negative or neutral tone this closing is a fordable versus this closing is cheap here affordable sounds much better than cheap because the word cheap also implies low quality

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Denotation

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Explicit or direct meaning

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Verbal irony

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Sarcasm

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Situational, irony

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Is the irony of something happening? That is very difficult to what was expected.

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Dramatic, irony

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Is a literary device, outlets, audience, or the raider in on the secret room for the character becomes aware of it

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Paradox

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A statement that seems to go against common sense, but may still be true of false statement that at first since through a person or thing, having qualities that seem to be opposite. Ex: here are the rules. Ignore all rules.

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Oxymoron

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Is a call me nations of two words that contradict each other it’s a dramatic figure of speech. An example is almost exactly, awfully good freezer, burn or living dead

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Gerunds

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A gerund is a verbal that ends in ING

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Participles

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Apart is supports a verbal that is used as an adjective in most often in an ING or ED there are two types of participles

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Nouns

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Person place or thing examples, teacher, Albany, basketball, proposal, or pride

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Verbs

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Words that convey action, a state of being or existence examples are walk go sing, are seem sleep

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Pronouns

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Examples are I, it, she, he , we

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Ad verbs

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Words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs answering questions

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Prepositions

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Never in a sentence in a preposition examples are on in over under, with

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Coordinating conjunction

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Words that link independent clauses examples are for and nor but or yet so

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Subordinating Conjunctions

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Words that link dependent clauses with independent clauses, although because whether while

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Interjections

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Hey, Oh, Darn, WOW basically interruption

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