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alliteration   The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are very close together.  
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antonym   A word that is opposite of another word.  
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autobiography   The story of a person's life, written or told by that person.  
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biography   The story of a person's life, written or told by another person.  
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character   A person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work.  
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chronological order   In the order it happened.  
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climax   The major turning point in a plot.  
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compare   To show how things are alike.  
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conflict   A struggle or clash between opposing forces.  
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contrast   To show how things are different.  
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description   The kind of writing that creates a clear image of something, usually by using details that appeal to one or more senses:sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.  
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dialogue   Conversation between two or more characters.  
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dictionary   Tells the meanings and pronunciation of words.  
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drama   A story written to be acted in front of an audience  
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essay   A short piece of nonfiction prose.  
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fable   A very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral or a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.  
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fantasy   Imaginative writing that carries the reader into an invented world where the laws of nature as we know them do not operate.  
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fiction   A prose account that is made up rather than true.  
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figure of speech   A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true.  
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flashback   A scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event.  
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folk tale   A story with no known author, originally passed on from generation to another by word of mouth.  
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foreshadowing   The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot.  
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fragment sentence   Is a group of words that either deoes not have a subject and verb or does nor express a complete thought.  
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free verse   Poetry that is "free" of a regular meter and rhyme scheme.  
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idiom   A saying whose meaning can't be understood from the individual words in it.  
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imagery   Language that appeals to the senses-sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.  
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legend   A story, usually based on some history fact, that has been handed down from one generation to the next.  
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main idea   The most important idea expressed in a piece of writing.  
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metaphor   A comparison between two like things in which one thing becomes another thing.  
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mood   The overall emotion created by a work of literature.  
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myth   A story that usually explains something about the world and involves gods and other superhuman beings.  
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narration   The kind of writing that relates a series of connected events to tell "what happened."  
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nonfiction   Prose writing that deals with real people, events and places without changing any facts.  
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onomatopoeia   The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.  
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personification   Speaking of something that is not human as though it has human qualities.  
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plot   The series of related events that make up a story.  
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poetry   A kind of rhytmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech, imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination.  
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point of view   The vantage point from which a story is told.  
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prose   Any writing that is not poetry.  
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refrain   Few words, a line, or a whole stanza repeated at intervals.  
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run-on sentence   Two complete sentences as if they were one sentence.  
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setting   The time and place of a story, a poem, or a play.  
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short story   A fictional prose narrative that is from about five to twenty bookd pages long.  
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simile   A comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.  
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stanza   In a poem, a group of lines that form a unit.  
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summarize   To make a summary of.  
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symbol   A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well.  
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synonym   A word that means the same as another.  
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tall tale   An exaggerated, fanciful story that gets taller and taller," more and more farfetched, the more it is told and retold.  
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theme   An idea about life revealed in a work of literature.  
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thesaurus   Contains lists of synonyms for certain words.  
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tone   The attitude a writer takes toward an audience, a subject, or a character.  
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noun   Names a person, place or thingEx boy, girl  
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pronoun   Takes the place of a nounEx he she it  
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adjective   Describes a noun or pronounCUTE puppy  
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verb   shows action or state of beingrun or is  
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adverb   Describes the verb, adjective, or another adverb Ex He ran very quickly  
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preposition   A word that shows location followed by a noun or pronoun known as the object of the preposition Ex The cat ran UNDER the fence.  
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conjunction   Connects words, phrases and/or clauses  
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interjection   Shows emotion Ex WOW! That hurt!  
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