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LA terms 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| author | The originator or creator of a piece of work, especially written. |
| comprehend | To understand. |
| connections | Readers relate what they read to personal experiences (text-to-self), to information from other texts (text-to-text), and to information about the world (text-to-world) in order to enhance understanding of self, text, and life |
| Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows more about a character's situation than the character does. |
| elegy | A type of lyric poem that expresses sadness for someone who has died; traditionally a solemn meditation on a serious subject. |
| organization | Refers to the structure of text; includes comparison and contrast, deduction, development of a theme or the chronology of an event. |
| protagonist | The main character in a literary work. |
| refrain | A phrase, line, or lines repeated in a poem; often called the chorus in song lyrics. |
| subordinating conjunctions | Words that link a subordinate clause (less important) with the rest of a sentence. |
| thesis | The central argument of an essay; a complete sentence (although sometimes it may require more than one sentence) that establishes the topic of the essay in clear, unambiguous language. |
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