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Narrative
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A narrated account; a story.
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Dialogue
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Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative.
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Suspense
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Pleasurable excitement and anticipation regarding an outcome, such as the ending of a mystery novel.
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Persuasive
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Tending or having the power to persaude
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Infinitivies
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A verb form that functions as a substantive while retaining certain verbal characteristics, such as modification by adverbs, and that in English may be preceded by to, as in To go willingly is to show strength or We want him to work harder, or may also occur without to, as in She had them read the letteror We may finish today.
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Participles
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A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective, as the past participle baked in We had some baked beans, and is used with an auxiliary verb to indicate tense, aspect, or voice, as the past participle baked in the passive sentence The beans were baked too long
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Active voice
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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; "`The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice
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Modifiers
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A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or word group
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Hyphens
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A punctuation mark ( - ) used between the parts of a compound word or name or between the syllables of a word, especially when divided at the end of a line of text.
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Brackets
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Marks of puncuation ([ ]) used to interject text within other text.
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Dashes
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A mark of punctuation (—), technically known as an em dash, used to set off a word or phrase after an independent clause or to set off words, phrases, or clauses that interrupt a sentence.
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Works cited
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A source quoted in an essay, report, or book to clarify, illustrate, or substantiate a point.
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