reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
100
the totality of surrounding conditions
environment
200
(law) a gift of personal property by will
legacy
200
lore
knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
200
your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
evidence
200
investigator
someone who investigates
200
plot
a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
300
the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
time
300
epilogue
a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play
300
something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
mystery
300
imagery
the ability to form mental images of things and events
300
reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
deductive reasoning
400
the questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists
interview
400
alibi
(law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
400
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
simile
400
metaphor
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
400
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
idiom
500
an account of the author's personal experience
memoir
500
inference
the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgement on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
500
the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
personification
500
alliteration
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
500
meter
the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)