Brown Girl Dreaming Vocabulary and Words You Need to Know

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(adj) suitable for a particular person, ocassion, or place

• consequence

• element

• appropriate

• nonsense

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(n) an accepted source such as a person or text, of expert information or advice

• consequence

• authority

• brillance

• disappear

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(n) essential part of something

• memoir

• element

• consequence

• disappear

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(n) consequence

• text that is written in s

• to give someone facts or information, to tell

• a personal narrative

• something that logically follows from an action or condition

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(v) justify

• to cause someone to believe something, to convince

• to demonstrate or prove tho be just, right, reasonable, or valid

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The main reason an author writes a text is called

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is a group of lines of poetry that at usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces.

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A type of autobiography that focuses on a specific and important event in the author's life is called a

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is a text that is written in sentences and paragraphs.

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is a type of writing that uses highly concise, musical, and emotional language.

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When a story is told by a character in the story and uses pronouns such as I, me, we, and us, it's written in

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One reason an author writes a text is to

or convince someone to believe something.

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The author's purpose that is meant to amuse the reader is called

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is language that is not meant to be taken literally or word for word. Examples are similes, metaphors, and personification.

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When an author gives facts or information in a text, the purpose is to

the reader.