2. analyze: to separate into parts for close study; examine and explain. cite: to use the words of someone else; quote multimedia: the combination of sound, still pictures, and video argument: a reason in favor of or against something.

3. cohesion: to be connected by reason; be consistent. collaborate: to cooperate or work with someone else, esp. on an artistic or intellectual project credibility: the quality of being believable, or the power to cause others to believe. delineate: to describe or portray in precise or vivid detail

4. salient: extremely noticeable or prominent coherent: logically ordered or connected; consistent nuances: a subtle quality or difference in tone, meaning, color, or the like; shade. conventions: a practice or way of doing something that is accepted by most people

5. metaphor: a comparison of 2 things without using like or as, may say one thing and mean another onomatopoeia: words that are spelled like the sounds they make conflict: the internal or external problem in a story oxymoron: an oxymoron is basically a phrase that has 2 words that would contradict each other, or just don't seem they should go together, such as "jumbo" and "shrimp.”

6. simile: comparing two uncommon things with the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ alliteration: words in a sentence that begin with the same consonant sound irony: a contradiction between what you think will happen and what actually happens. protagonist: the leading character in a literary work

7. imagery: language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. dialogue: a talk between two or more people or between characters in a play, film, or novel; quotation marks will be used. narrator: a person or character who tells a story climax: The top of Freytag’s Pyramid, the point at which a conflict reaches a crisis in a work of literature

8. point of view: The vantage point from which the story is told. suspense: a feeling of growing tension or excitement. mood: a feeling in a literary work. characterization: the techniques a writer uses to create a character

9. antagonist: A character or force in conflict with the main character setting: The time and place of the action in a story -ology: a suffix that means "the science or study of." paleontology: the science that studies animal and plant fossils for information about life in the past.

10. theme: The central message in a literary work tone: It expresses the writer’s attitude toward his/her subject. fossil: the remains or trace of a living animal or plant from a long time ago. Fossils are found embedded in earth or rock. artifact: any object made by human beings