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| the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb |
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| A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |
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| The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
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| The act of alluding or the act of showing something but it really didn’t happen like a magic trick |
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comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. |
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| A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary |
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| A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events. |
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| A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else |
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| A punctuation mark (') used to indicate either possession (e.g., Harry's book; boys' coats) or the omission |
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Argumentative essay
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| Argumentative essays are most often used to address controversial issues |
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| Anecdotal evidence[image] |
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| The expression anecdotal evidence refers to evidence from anecdotes. Because of the small sample, there is a larger chance that it may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases |
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| Language belonging to an earlier time and generally no longer used |
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| A remark by a character in a play intended to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters. |
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| In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables |
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| a general pervasive feeling or mood |
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| The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event |
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| An account of a person's life written by that person |
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| A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas |
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| A four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming |
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| Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group |
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| An account of someone's life written by someone else |
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