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Tone
musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.
Central idea
it is the most talked about or written about idea in the passage. It is the idea about which other details provide support
Evidence
Supporting details are reasons, examples, facts, steps, or other kinds of evidence that explain a main idea
Precise adjectives
adjectives that are exact and exactly describe the word
dialogue
conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie
description
a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event
setting
the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place
Direct Characterization
The writer makes direct statements about a character’s personality and tells the reader or viewer what the character is like
Inference
a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
Ironic
happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this
Author’s perspective
how the author feels about the subject
Idioms
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
Infer
deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
Direct/Indirect Quotes
A direct quote (or direct quotation) is the exact words taken from an original source and used in a second piece of writing. An indirect quote (or indirect quotation) is the idea or fact taken from an outside source and used in a second piece of writing
Assonance
in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
Alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Consonance
a combination of notes which are in harmony with each other due to the relationship between their frequencies
Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Slant Rhyme
a type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical sounds
Simile
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
Attitude towards subject
his or her feelings about the subject he or she is writing about
symbol
a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract
Allusion
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Repetition
the action of repeating something that has already been said or written
Alliterative language
using alliterative when you speak
Word order in sentences
the arrangement of words in a given linguistic structure
Passive/Active
active: the boy kicked the soccer ball; Passive: the soccer ball was kicked by the boy
Prepositional phrases
a modifying phrase consisting of a preposition and its object.
Colon
a punctuation mark (:) used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.
Appositive phrases
a noun or phrase that renames or describes the noun to which it is next
Semicolon
a punctuation mark (;) indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma.
