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Active Voice   When the subject of the sentence is the doer of the action in the sentence  
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Affix   One or more letters occuring as a bound form attached to the beginning, ending, or base of a word and serving to produce a dervite word  
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Allusion   An implied or indirect refrince ro literate to a familiar person, place, or thing  
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Bias   The subtle presence of a positive or negative approch to a topic  
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Central idea; controlling point idea   The unifiying element of a piece of text  
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Chronology   The sequential order in which events occur  
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Classification   A stradegy a writer uses to group ideas that are similiar or realeted  
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Coney   To comminicate or make known  
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Dangling modifier   A modifier that is clear attached to the word or phrase it suppose to modify  
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Irrelevant   Not relating to an issue or that which does not support an issue  
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Key event   An important occurance within a text  
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Demonstrate   To make evident or improve  
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Distinction   A differance of discrimination made between two or more indivivuals ideas or events  
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Distinguish   To mark off as different; to reconize the promient features of  
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Intergrate   To combine information to produce a larger unit or whole  
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Indicative mood   The form of a verb takes in sentences that make a statement or question  
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Ellipsis   An omission of a word quoted passage that is indiacated by three periods  
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Firsthand accond   Coming from being a direct personal observation or experiance  
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Literal text   Imaginitive or creative text that is generally a narritive story  
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Literal meaning   Involving an interpretation of a text or word at its most basic non figurative meaning  
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