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Assertive tone

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When the author shows confidence or authority

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Analysis

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When you compare two things using evidence and explanation

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Inference

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Making an educated guess by what comes out to the text

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Details

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Things shown in a story help show something

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Theme

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The main thing learned from the story.

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Central idea

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The main idea of the text and what it is mainly about.

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Development

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How the story and charters in it develop throughout the story

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Refined

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To make precise

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Emerges

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To come together and make one

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Bias

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Going off of what they believe in and not base on facts or evidence.

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Objective summary

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A summary that doesn’t include what your opinion is.

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Complex character

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A character that becomes different through the development of the story.

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Plot

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The events that are put in place for how the story is suppose to go.

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Characterization

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The creation of a character

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Conflict

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The main problem in the story

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Connotation

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The feelings of the author

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Denotation

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Feeling from the dictionary

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Figurative language

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Language used to help the author tell a story

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Simile

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Comparing things using like or as

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Metaphor

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Comparing 2 things without like or as

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Personification

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Giving non human like things given human like characteristics

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Hyperbole

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An extreme exageraton

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Tone

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How the author is telling a story

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Formal vs informal tone

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Formal is using formal words to tell the story inform is using informal words

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Context

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The details and things that are in the story

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Text structure

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How the story is structure

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Suspense/ mystery/ tension

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Used to create excitement

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Parallel plot

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A story that incorporates two or more sperate stories

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Flashback

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When the story talks about something in the past to show something

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Foreshadowing

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When the author features something that is going to happen in the future before it actually happens

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Rhetoric

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Persuasive way to persuade the reader to do what they want

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Allusion

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Telling something that is well known

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Paradox

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A person that contradicts there feature or qualities

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Understatement

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Something that was said that was no where near close to the correct estate t

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Logical fallacy

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A false construction of a arguement

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Emotional appeals

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Using emotions to show what the person means and trying to persaude

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Claim

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What the person is trying to write about

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Counterclaim

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Evidence that backs up the authors claim

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Point of view

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How the story is writing 1st 2nd or 3rd person 3rd omnicuant and 3rd objective

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Transition

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Transition words used to help the author make his story flow better

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Thesis statements

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The statement that tells what they are writing about.

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Objective tone

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The author is telling there opinion throughout the story

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Alliteration

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The use of the same letter or sound in a sentence

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Assonance

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The repetition of the same sound

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Convey

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Communicate what is being said in the story

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Authors purpose

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The purpose of why the author is writing the story

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Informative essay

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Informing people about a story or paragraph

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Narrative essay

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Telling a story

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Argumentative/persuasive essay

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