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 * Accuracy:** Correctness or precision.


 * Affix:** One or more letters occurring as a bound form attached to the beginning or end of a word or base and serving to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form (e.g., a prefix or suffix).


 * Alliteration:** The repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.


 * Allusion**: An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place or event.


 * Analysis:** The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another.


 * Analyze:** Separate and examine the elements


 * Antonym:** A word that is the opposite of another word (e.g. hot-cold, night-day).


 * Apply:** Use an abstraction to explain a concrete situation


 * Appositive:** Also called apposition; a grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent nouns having the same referent stand next to one another; often separated by commas (e.g., “ My father, Ned, worked for NASA.”).


 * Argue:** Defend a position


 * Assertion:** A declaration, statement, allegation or claim.

**Author’s** **Purpose:** The author’s intent either to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people, or to persuade or convince their audience to do or not do something.

**Author’s** **Thesis:** The topic and a specific feeling or idea associated with it. The thesis can be directly stated or implied in the examples and illustrations used by the author.


 * Autobiography:** The story of a person's life written by himself or herself.