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Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 297 v.2

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1. indentation |n| the space at the beginning of a line of writing.
2. "The purchasing form contains predefined paragraph formats, which determine the indentation and fonts for text, for example."
3. "The tabulator key cannot be used
   on this wiki for indentation."
4. "Paragraphs are marked off by indentation."
5. margin |n| the blank space that surrounds the text on a page.
6. "He jotted a note in the margin."
7. header |n| a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about  
8. "The heading seemed to have little to do with the text."
9. foreword |n| a short introduction to a book, typically by a person other than the author.
10. preface |n| an introduction to a book, typically stating its subject, scope, or aims. 
11. prologue |n| a separate introductory section of a literary, dramatic, or musical work.
12. introduction |n| a book or course of study intended to introduce a subject to a person.
13. pagragraph |n| a distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering.  
14. "Also, does anyone know how to separate paragraphs with a line or something on a chapter?".   
15. stanza |n| a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.  
16. "First, with respect to prosody, he believes that the syllable count of poetic lines, strophes, stanzas, and poems was essential to the writing of biblical poetry." 
17. column |n| a vertical division of a page or text.  
18. "With Indentation you can specify the number of spaces the lead column is to be indented by." 
19. chapter |n| 
20. page |n|

 

      Text Elements

1. grapheme |n| the smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system.
2. "Then, beginning readers learn to parse the printed word into graphemes and subsequently assign phonemes to the different graphemes."  
3. prose |n| written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. 
4. "A short story in prose." 
5. refrain |n| a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse. 
6. "These all seem to derive from the Folio text, but some may supplement it by accurately recording where breaks came between verses and refrains." 
7. verse |n| writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme. 
8. "Most of the play is written in verse, but some of it is in prose."
9. syllable |n| a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; e.g., there are two syllables in water and three in inferno. 
10. "The vowels of the stressed syllables in such words as father and fodder are generally identical."

    People

1. author |n|
2. writer |n| 

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