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Definition: The form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce lyrics.

Example: the word is usually referred to in music

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Ballad

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Definition: the act or process of giving reasons for or against something.

Example: couples go through a lot of these

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Argumentation

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Definition: not merely a summary of a literary work. Instead, it is an argument about the work that expresses a writer’s personal perspective, interpretation, judgment, or critical evaluation of the work.

Example: in other words, the authors opinion.

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Literary analysis

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Definition: Style in literature is the literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words — the author’s word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text.

Examples: the authors choice of text and use of words in a story

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Style (literary)

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Definition: the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.

Example: a research paper, or bringing two pieces of information together.

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Synthesis (in writing)

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