The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
What is diction?
100
Feel or express doubt about; raise objections to
What is questioning?
100
Estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between.
What is compare?
100
A part or aspect of something, esp. one that is essential or characteristic.
What is elements?
100
A statement or question designed to get students to think about a topic in depth and motivate them to produce their best, most expertly expressed writing.
What is prompt?
200
A short extract from a text.
What is excerpt?
200
This occurs when a writer or speaker expresses ideas of equal worth with the same grammatical form.
What is parallelism?
200
The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.
What is context?
200
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is genre?
200
A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.
What is strategy?
300
Make sure or demonstrate that (something) is true, accurate, or justified.
What is verify?
300
An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation?
300
The arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.
What is chronology?
300
Strongly suggest the truth or existence of (something not expressly stated)
What is imply?
300
A change or slight difference in condition, amount, or level, typically with certain limits.
What is variation?
400
Express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, esp. to achieve greater clarity.
What is paraphrase?
400
Implied though not plainly expressed
What is implicit?
400
Make (an idea, impression, or feeling) known or understandable to someone.
What is convey?
400
Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
What is infer?
400
Arrive at (a fact or a conclusion) by reasoning; draw as a logical conclusion.
What is deduce?
500
Characterized by the inference of general laws from particular instances; logical reasoning
What is inductive?
500
Describes the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing: narration, description, exposition, and argument.
What is modes of discourse?
500
Make partial or minor changes to (something), typically so as to improve it or to make it less extreme.
What is modify?
500
Contain or include (something) as part of a whole.