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narrative
- a story
- a representation of an event
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illustration
an example or instance that helps make something clear
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concrete/sensory detail
a particular element that is real, tangible, and perceptible through sight, hearing, smell, taste, and/or touch
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abstract
- not knowable through the five senses, expressing qualities apart from physical or sensory details, theoretical
- (n) a summary of points usually expressed in skeletal form
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active voice
sentence construction in which the subject acts
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passive voice
- sentence construction which conveys that the action is done to the subject
- (tip: prepositions by, to, or for)
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syntax
the way in which words and phrases are put together to form sentences
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dependent (subordinate) clause
- a group of words that contains a subject and a predicate but cannot stand along as a sentence
- often start with conjunctions (after, because, while, unless, ect.), relative pronouns (who, whose, that, ect.), or relative adv (when, where)
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independent clause
a group of words that contains a subject and a predicate and can stand alone as a sentence
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simple sentence
a sentence composed of a single independent clause and no dependent clauses
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compound sentence
a sentence composed of two or more independent clauses
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complex sentence
a sentence composed of one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
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