Nonfiction Terms
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| Diction | Author's choice of words
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| Syntax | Sentence length, and arrangement the sentence is written.
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| Subjective | Arising out of, processing your own ideas on a subject.
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| Purpose | Author's reason for writing.
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| Description | Creates an impression about a person, object,or an experience.
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| Compare & Contrast | Showing similarities and differences between two or more items
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| Expository | Provides information, discusses ideas, or explains a process.
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| Cause & Effect | Explaining the relationship between events, actions, or situation by showing the resulting income.
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| Argument | A short statement of subject matter, or a brief synopsis of a plot.
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| Biography | Form of nonfiction in writer tells the life story of another person.
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| Fiction | Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.
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| Main Idea | What the selection is about. Stated or implied.
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| Main Topic | Is more stated.
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| Over-generalizations | People make claims; words used to make people persuasive.
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| Analogy | Comparison between two or more things that are similar in someway but unfamiliar in other.
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| Persuasion | Convince readers to think or act a certain way.
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| Repetition | Expressing different ideas using the same words or images in order reinforce concepts and unify the speech.
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| Restatement | Expressing the same idea in different words to clarify and stress key points.
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| Rhetorical Devices | Special patterns of words and ideas that create emphasis and stir emotions.
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| Emotional Appeal | Statements intended to affect listeners feelings about a subject.
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| Puns | A play on words involving a word with two or more different meanings or two words that sound alike with different meanings.
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| Fact | Something that can be proven by documentation, opposite of opinion.
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| Emotionally Charged | Used as an emotional appeal, using people's emotions.
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