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  2. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    recognize confusion or attention problems, recognize the literary devices or propositional structures used in a passage and determine its tone, understand the situational mood (agents, objects, temporal and spatial reference points, casual and intentional inflections, etc.) conveyed for assertions, questioning, commanding, refraining, etc., and

  3. Show, don't tell - Wikipedia

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    Show, don't tell is a narrative technique used in various kinds of texts to allow the reader to experience the story through actions, words, subtext, thoughts, senses, and feelings rather than through the author's exposition, summarization, and description. [1]

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    To write that someone insisted, speculated, or surmised can suggest the degree of the person's carefulness, resoluteness, or access to evidence, even when such things are unverifiable. To say that someone asserted or claimed something can call their statement's credibility into question, by emphasizing any potential contradiction or implying ...

  5. Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    As explained in Wikipedia:Plot-only description of fictional works, an encyclopedia article about a work of fiction frequently includes a concise summary of the plot. The description should be thorough enough for the reader to get a sense of what happens and to fully understand the impact of the work and the context of the commentary about it.

  6. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    eponymous is used to describe something that gives its name to something else, not something that receives the name of something else. [dubious – discuss] Standard: Frank, the eponymous owner of Frank's Bistro, prepares all meals in a spotless kitchen. Non-standard: Frank maintains an eponymous restaurant, Frank's Bistro. ethic and ethnic.

  7. Confusion about reason for relocation of book reading away ...

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    Jun. 8—The start of Sallie Bingham's book tour for her latest novel Taken by the Shawnee is leaving her with more questions than answers following an abrupt location change.

  8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction - Wikipedia

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    When writing about fiction, keep the following in mind. Write from a real-world perspective: the principal frame of reference is always the real world, not a fictional world in which the story occurs. Use a balance of primary and secondary sources: both are necessary for a real-world perspective.

  9. Confusion (novella) - Wikipedia

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    Confusion (German: Verwirrung der Gefühle), also known in English under the titles Confusion of Feelings or Episode in the Early Life of Privy Councillor D. is a 1927 novella by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It tells the story of a student and his friendship with a professor. [1]