Vocabulary

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//tax relief //refers literally to deductions that a person might claim in order to reduce the amount of tax they must pay to their government. However, use of the emotive word //relief //implies that the tax was an unreasonable burden to begin with. || Examples include: books, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, periodicals, government documents, manuscripts, maps, realia, artifacts, tablets, visual materials, music, sound recordings, oral histories, and dissertations. ||
 * Tone || a term that describes the writer’s attitude toward the subject and toward the audience. Tone can usually be summed up in one word: solemn, tense, sarcastic, serious, enthusiastic, fearful, hostile, formal, objective, personal, ironic, humorous, or impersonal. ||
 * Argument || line of reasoning; exchange of views ||
 * Debate || formal discussion that considers different sides of a question ||
 * Reasoning || Drawing conclusions through connected thought ||
 * Excerpt || extract from a book, piece of text, film, etc… ||
 * Mood || the atmosphere in a literary work or passage. The feeling the reader experiences as a result of the reading. ||
 * Point of view || the perspective or angle from which a story is told. ||
 * Loaded Words || Wording that attempts to influence the listener or reader by appealing to emotion. Loaded words and phrases are those which have strong emotional overtones or connotations, and which evoke strongly positive or negative reactions beyond their literal meaning. For example, the phrase
 * Lyrics || Words of a song ||
 * Quotations || repeat or copy out of a passage; to cite an author’s words ||
 * Speech || formal public address ||
 * Author’s Purpose || to inform, to entertain, or to persuade; an author’s reason for writing ||
 * Primary Sources of Information: || Primary sources provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the events or conditions being documented. Often these sources are created at the time when the events or conditions are occurring, but primary sources can also include autobiographies, memoirs, and oral histories recorded at a later time. Primary sources are characterized by their content, regardless of whether they are available in original format, microfilm/microfiche, digital format, or published format.
 * Memoir || historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources ||
 * Biography || Written account of a person’s life by another ||
 * Evaluate || To determine value or quality of given information ||
 * Support || To give valid reasons for what you want to do or your interpretation of a situation ||
 * verfiy || To prove the truth of as by evidence or testimony; confirm, substantiate. ||


 * ==Plot: the sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next.==

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 * ==Setting: the time and place of the action==

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 * ==Characterization: the way an author develops a character which a reader can learn from the author's details about the physical appearance of the character; the actions, speech, and behavior of the character; and the character's interactions with others. Graphic organizers to help with characterization==

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 * ==Dialogue: words exchanged between and among characters==

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 * ==Personification: type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.==

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 * ==Stanza: a group of lines in poetry which are usually similar in length and pattern.==

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 * ==Annotate: a note that is made while reading a text==

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 * ==Textual evidence: references made from the featured text in the form of details, quotes, and inferences to support a position or an argument; it helps a reader stay focused on the text during writing and discussion.== ||

=**Poetry/Literary Terms **=
 * == Speaker: the imaginary voice the poet uses when writing a poem. It is the character who tells the poem == ||
 * == Infer: to make a reasonable guess based on what you glean from the text == ||
 * == Elaboration: the degree to which the main point or event is elaborated and explained by specific details, descriptions, and reactions. == ||
 * **__Sound Devices __**__: __
 * A writer's intentional use of language, especially in verse, to create sounds within his or her work

**Onomatopoeia**- word whose sound resembles what it describes (snap, crackle, pop).
 * Alliteration ** - repetition of beginning sounds in a series of words
 * Rhyme **- the repetition of sounds at the end of words
 * Repetition **- the use, more than once of any element of language


 * **__Figurative Language __**__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">: __
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">the five senses **Simile**<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- comparison of two seemingly unlike things using the words //like// or //as//. **Metaphor**<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Unlike simile, you don't use "like" or "as" in the comparison. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">meanings of the individual words themselves.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Imagery/Sensory language **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- words and phrases that describe the actual experience of
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Hyperbole **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- figurative speech making an overstatement on purpose, an exaggeration.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Personification **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> - Objects, animals, or ideas are given human characteristics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Idiom **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- An idiom is a combination of words that has a meaning that is different from the


 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Other Poetry terms __**__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">: __

**<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Free Verse **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- Poetry that does not follow certain rules or pattern. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">picture so as to at once to produce emotion and suggest spiritual insight <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">feelings of the poet. A lyric poem may resemble a song in form or style <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">rhyme scheme <span style="font-family: 'tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">flags, which symbolize a nation <span style="font-family: 'tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">serious, ironic, outraged, serene, depressed, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Haiku ****<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">a Japanese poem in three lines, of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, which represents a clear
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Lyric **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, which expresses the thoughts and
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Limerick **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- is a humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific rhythm pattern and
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Stanza **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- group of lines in a poem that forms a metrical or unit.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Symbol/Symbolism **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- in general terms, anything that stands for something else. Example:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Mood **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- How a piece of writing makes the reader feel
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Tone **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">- the writer's attitude toward the text. Tone may be playful, formal, intimate, angry,

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