apostrophe | text character used to mark the possessive or to show the omission of letters or numbers |
article | essay; editorial; individual thing or element of a class |
background | the state of the environment in which a situation exists; information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem |
biography | an account of the series of events making up a person's life; accounts of people's life |
cause | something produces a result; basis for an action or response; a reason |
compose | produce a literary work; put together out of existing material |
conclusion | the last section of a communication; a final; the act of making up your mind about something |
conflict | fight; struggle; incompatibility of dates or events |
create | make or cause to be or to become; invest with a new thing |
define | determine the nature of; give a definition; describe the nature or basic qualities of; explain |
determine | fix the boundaries of; mark off and separate; set bounds to; decide conclusively and authoritatively |
dictionary | a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them |
discuss | consider or examine in speech or writing; speak with others about |
effect | something brought about by a cause or agent; a result |
fable | a deliberately false or improbable account; a short moral story; a story about mythical beings or events |
fairy tale | a story about fairies; told to amuse children |
fantasy | dream; daydream; imagination unrestricted by reality |
glossary | brief explanation of words, often placed at back of book |
imagery | ability to form mental images of things or events; figurative writing |
inference | inferring by deduction or induction; truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; conclusion; deduction |
investigate | explore; observe or inquire into in detail; examine systematically |
knowledge | the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning |
lesson | a unit of instruction; a task assigned for individual study |
limerick | humorous short verse; nonsense song or verse |
message | communication, usually brief |
metaphor | implied comparison; one thing conceived as representing another; symbol |
moral | of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character |
narrative | story; art, technique, or process of telling story |
novel | previously unknown; strikingly new, unusual, or different; young |
paraphrase | restate text in one's own words, especially to clarify thought of others |
point of view | a mental position from which things are viewed; the spatial property of the position from which something is observed |
proofread | read copy or proof for purposes of error detection and correction |
proverb | a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people |
represent | stand for; describe or present; play a role or part |
research | inquire into; attempt to find out in scientific manner |
resolution | determination; resolving to do something; formal statement of a decision |
respond | show a reaction to something favorably or as hoped |
riddle | pierce with numerous holes; perforate; permeate or spread throughout |
short story | a prose narrative shorter than a novel |
simile | comparison of one thing with another, in English generally using like or as |
vocabulary | a list of words and often phrases, usually arranged alphabetically and defined or translated |
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