Position

Paragraph

Suggest

Description

Convey

Emotions

Include

Information

Selection

Different

Predict

Effect

Cause

Article

Boxed Information

Inform

Informational Text

Statement

Objective

Provide

Like

Unlike

Concerns/concerning

Primarily

Portrayed

Important

Both

Matches

Describe

Significant

Shows

Conclude

Offer

Encourage

Mention

Explain

Indicate

Demonstrate

Common

Emphasize

Remind

Employ

Reader

Advice

Refer

In Order To

Clarify

Example

Review

Author

Feel

Edit

Revise

Effective

Combine

Clarity

Lacks

Improve

Change

Transition

Insert

Replace

Realize

Correct

Analogy

Contradict

Contrast

Compare

Element

Explore

Visualize

Summary

Illustrate

Understand

Context

Interpret

Reflects

Figurative

Reason

According

Expression

Aspect

Fact

Believe

This includes direct relation to the topic, currency of information, author's expertise, reputation of publication, and inclusion of supporting information.

This is to separate a whole into its parts.

This is a persuasive technique in which speaker mentions an important event or person to lend importance or credibility to his argument.

This involves one or more reasons presented by a speaker or a writer to lead the audience or reader to a logical conclusion.

This is the kind of writing that tries to persuade readers to accept an author's opinions.

This is the reason for creating written work.

This is an argument that states that everyone else is doing something so others should as well.

This is the ability to trust something as true or credible.

This is a prejudice that is leaning toward a positive or negative judgment on something; a personal judgment or opinion about a particular person, position, or thing.

This is a propaganda technique and the term comes from stacking a deck of cards in your favor. It is used to slant a message. Key words or unfavorable statistics may be omitted in an ad or commercial, leading to a series of half-truths.

This rhetorical strategy contains a statement that is an arguable interpretation of the facts. It is present when people can disagree about the definition of the category to which the object or person belongs.

This is the process of forming a specific consequence from general observations.

This is a type of persuasive technique in which writers or speakers appeal to fear, anger, or joy to sway their audience.

This is placing a value or rank on a piece of writing or speaking.

This is information that supports a generalization.

This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with something that you already know to make sense of what you read.

This is a type of real-world writing that presents information that is necessary or valuable to the reader.

This is a rhetorical strategy that uses language in a way to imply or bring about a particular answer.

This is prose written with the primary purpose of explaining, arguing, or describing in an objective, straightforward manner. It includes such genres as 'biography' and 'autobiography'.

This is a statement that reflects a writer's belief about a topic , and it cannot be proved.

In writing, this is the trait of order, structure and presentation of information; It is the writing trait which measures logical sequencing of ideas, details, or events.

This is a writer's point of view about a particular subject, and is often influenced by their beliefs or by events in their lives.

This is to convince.

These are techniques used to convince. They include repetition, sentence variety, understatement, and overstatement.

This is the perspective from which a story is told.

This is an extreme form of persuasion intended to prejudice and incite the reader or listener to action either for or against a particular cause or position.

This is a persuasive technique in which a word, phrase, or entire sentence is repeated to reinforce the speaker's message.

This is a propaganda technique used to make a person desire to be a part of an elite, upper group and not part of the masses.

These are simplified images that narrowly define certain groups of people.

This is a persuasive technique in which someone will testify that he used or bought an advertised product which did indeed help, so it will work for the reader or audience, too.

This is the main body of a piece of writing or any of the various forms in which writing exists, such as a book, a poem, an article, or a short story.

This is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.

This is a propaganda technique that is an attempt to move the prestige of a positive symbol to a person or an idea.

This is a statement that is sound or just, well-founded.

This is an expression of an opinion or standpoint.

Afterword

Bibliography

Bold Print

Caption

Cause And Effect

Central Argument

Central Idea

Central Message

Chart

Chronological Order

Compare And Contrast

Constructed Response

Content

Controlling Idea

Denouement

Detail

Diagram

Directions

Expository Text

First-person Point Of View

Footnote

Foreword

Glossary

Graphic Adj.

Graphic Organizer

Graphic Source

Heading

Illustration

Implicit Directions

Implied Meaning

Infer

Introduction

Main Idea

Narrative Text

Omniscient

Order Of Importance

Paraphrase

Prewriting

Problem-Solution

Reflective Writing

Relevant

Rising Action

Schematic Diagram

Sequential Order

Sidebar

Subheading

Subject

Summarize

Supporting Evidence

Supporting Sentence

Synthesize

Table

Table Of Contents

Technical Writing

Text Features

Thesis

Third Person Limited Point Of View

Timeline

Title

Transitional Device

Universal Theme

metaphor

text structure

significance

author's attitude/tone

author's purpose

theme

rhyme scheme

point of view

personification

simile

connotation

conflict

internal conflict

external conflict

summary

purpose

dialogue

to infer

to persuade

to advance

to develop

the selection

to convey

assumption

evidence

central (main) idea

effect

figurative language

oxymoron

excerpt

rhetorical question

stanza

setting

denotation

diction/word choice

archetype

allusion

supporting details

anecdote

assonance

consonance

analogy

hyperbole

mood

TPEQEA

Imagery

Motif

Dramatic Irony

Verbal Irony

Situational Irony

Dynamic character

Static character

Accuracy Of Sources

Analyze

Appeal To Authority

Argument

Argumentation

Bandwagon

Believability

Bias

Emotional Appeal

Evaluate

False Analogy Technique

Inductive Logic

Leading Question

Limited View

Loaded Language

Logic

Logical Fallacy

Name Calling

Opinion

Organization

Peer Pressure

Perspective

Persuade

Persuasive Appeal

Persuasive Techniques

Persuasive Text

Plain Folks Technique

Point Of View

Propaganda

Propaganda Techniques

Repetition

Snob Appeal

Testimonial

Text

Transfer

Valid

Viewpoint

Sequence

Internal and External

Internal conflict

External conflict

Exposition

Rising action

Falling action

Conclusion/resolution

Suspense

Foreshadowing

Flashback

Mood

Tone

Character

Protagonist

Antagonist

Trait

Character motivation

Dialogue

Dialect

Jargon

Slang

Informal language

Formal language

Narrator

Point of view

Fiction

Fantasy

Biography

Autobiography

Stereotype

Symbol

Allusion

Irony

Euphemism

Idiom

Oxymoron

Figurative language

Figures of speech

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Personification

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Stanza

Refrain

Author's purpose

Voice

Satire

Inference

To imply

Nonfiction

Primary source

Secondary source

Text structure

Rhetorical question

Chronological/Sequence

Cause/Effect

Problem/Solution

Compare/Contrast

Descriptions

Parallel Structure

Topic

Supporting Details

Summarizing

Support

Development of an Idea

Topic Sentence

Text Structure

Author's Purpose

Evidence from the text

If I know the author's purpose, I will have a better idea of what the central idea of the text is.

Objective Summary

Literature

Genre

Purpose

Prose

Academic Vocabulary

Author's Viewpoint

explicit

inferred

Elements of Story

Setting

Characters

Conflict

Climax

Theme

Plot

Resolution

Evidence

Diction

Details

Structure