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20 Cards in this Set
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Compare and Contrast
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Pattern of development that focuses on similarities and differences between two or more subjects.
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Complex Sentence
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A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
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Concession
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A reluctant acknowledgement or yielding.
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Conclusion
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Group of sentences or paragraphs that bring an essay to a close.
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Concrete Language
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Denotes objects or qualities that can be perceived by the senses.
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Connotation
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The associations, meanings, or feelings a word suggests beyond its literal meaning.
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Credible
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Worthy or belief or trustworthy.
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Cumulative Sentence
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An independent clause followed by subordinate clause or phrases that supply additional detail.
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Declarative Sentence
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A sentence that makes a statement.
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Deduction
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Reasoning from general to specific.
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Definition
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Explanation of a words meaning.
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Denotation
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Literal meaning of a word.
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Description
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Pattern of development that presents a word picture of a thing, a person, a situation, or a serious of events.
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Dialectal Journal
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Double column journal in which one writes a quotation in one column and reflections on that quotation in the other column.
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Diction
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Word choice.
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Digression
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A remark or series of remarks that wander from the main point of a discussion.
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Documentation
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The formal way of giving credit to the source says form which a writer borrows words or ideas.
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Dominant Impression
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The mood or quality that is central to a piece of writing.
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Elegiac
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Often used to describe tone, which is usually sad and revolving around death.
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Epigram
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A brief witty statement.
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