Wild "C"ard
A person or an animal who is part of the action of a literary work.
Character
The main character in a story
protagonist
the main point of an essay
thesis
Consisting of many different parts that are hard to understand or hard to put together;
complex
A comparison WITHOUT using like or as
The opposite of your thesis
counterargument
having to do with the brain; intellectual or logical
cognitive
A universal idea, such as inequality, which can apply both to made-up stories and real life
theme
rebuttal
This situation and other details that help you understand someting better
context
the initial part where the characters, settings, and relationships are established.
Exposition
The first line of a body paragraph
topic sentence
a phrase that doesn't mean the same as the words say (kill two birds with one stone, hit the hay, cool as a cucumber)
idiom
words or phrases that move your paper from one idea to another
transition words/phrases