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- bias
- a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation, a four-line stanza consisting of unrhymed first and third lines in iambic tetrameter and rhymed second and fourth lines in iambic trimeter, often used in ballads
- rising action
- Action that leads to turning point
- legend
- A narrative or tradition handed down from the past; distinguished from a myth by having more historical truth and perhaps less of the supernatural
- annotated bibliography
- An annotated bibliography gives an account of the research that has been done on a given topic. Like any bibliography, an annotated bibliography is an alphabetical list of research sources
- prefix
- an affix that added in front of the word
- foreshadowing
- the act of providing vague advance indications
- synonym
- two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context
- multisyllabic
- Multi-syllabic words in English consisting of one or more syllable with a lax vowel and ending with a syllable containing a tense vowel are highly predictable.
- satire
- a group of rightings
- exerpt
- a passage taken from a book, article, etc.
- plot
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- poet
- a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
- anthology
- a collection of selected literary passages
- persuade
- cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action
- compound word
- A compound word is made when two words are joined to form a new word.
- root word
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- fairy tale
- an interesting but highly implausible story
- venn diagram
- a diagram that uses circles to represent set theory
- purpose
- what something is used for
- suffix
- an affix that is added at the end of the word
- memoir
- an account of the author's personal experiences
- aphorism
- a short pithy instructive saying
- setting
- arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
- fable
- a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
- main idea
- what a piece of writing is mainly about
- problem
- a source of difficulty
- anecdote
- short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
- bibliography
- a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)
- science fiction
- literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society
- solution
- the successful action of solving a problem
- autobiogrphy
- an account of ones own life.
- syllogism
- logical formula consisting of a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion; deceptive or specious argument
- homonym
- two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings
- rhythm
- a pattern of sound
- context
- discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation
- biography
- an account of the series of events making up a person's life
- caption
- brief description accompanying an illustration
- atlas
- a figure of a man used as a supporting column, a reference book that maps and gives facts about places
- antonym
- two words that express opposing concepts
- tall tale
- an improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story
- point of view
- the spatial property of the position from which something is observed
- syllable
- a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
- acronym
- a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name
- stanza
- A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
- contraction
- the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope