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Vocabulary 7
Term | Definition |
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Explanatory Essay | an essay that explains a topic and uses details from the text as support. |
Plagiarism | taking and using as your own words, ideas and words from someone else. |
Inference | a logical guess or conclusion based on observation, prior experience, and textual evidence. |
Detail | evidence that can be facts, statistics, or examples that support the topic sentence. |
Diction | the writer or speaker’s choice of words. |
Denotation | the exact meaning of the word. |
Connotation | the implied meaning of the word. |
Simile | the comparison between two unlike things, using like or as. |
Metaphor | the comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another. |
Personification | a kind of metaphor that gives objects human characteristics. |