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Informational Terms
Terms I need to know
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Analogy | A comparison that shows how two things are alike |
| Argument | A position supported by evidence |
| Bias | leaning in favor against a person or issue |
| cause | an event that makes something happen |
| effect | what happens as a result of the cause |
| chronological order | most narrative texts, true or fictional, are in this order |
| compare | when you look for similarities or likenesses |
| contrast | when you look for differences |
| conclusions | a general summing up of the specific details in a text |
| connotation | feelings and associations that come to be attracted to the word |
| denotation | the dictionary definition |
| context clues | when you don't know the meaning of a word, look for a clue to its meaning in this |
| evidence | you find this when you read informational and persuasive text |
| fact | a statement that can be proved true |
| opinion | a personal belief or feeling |
| fallacious reasoning | false |
| generalization | a broad statement |
| graphic features | design elements in a text |
| images | pictures in a reader's mind |
| inference | an educated guess |
| instructional manuals | tells you how to operate a specific device |
| main idea | the most important point or focus of a passage |
| newspapers | informational texts that present facts about current events |
| objective writing | sticks to the facts |
| outlining | helps to identify main ideas |
| persuasion | to convince us to think or act a certain way |
| propaganda | an organized attempt to influence a large audience of readers, listeners, or TV watchers |
| purposes of texts | to inform, to persuade, to express feelings, or to entertain |
| reading rate | the speed at which you read a text |
| retelling | helps you identify and remember events that advance the plot of a story |
| SQ3R | reading and study strategy that takes place in five steps |
| signs | the briefest informational texts you read |
| stereotyping | referring to all members of a group as if they were all the same |
| subjective writing | writing that reveals and emphasizes the writers personal feelings and opinion |
| summarizing | restating the main ideas or major events in a text |
| textbooks | informational texts written to help students learn about a subject |
| writer's perspective | the way a person looks at a subject |
| allusion | a reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history,religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science |
| alliteration | repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together |
| predictions | guessing what will happen next |
| atmosphere | the overall mood or emotion of a work of literature |
| autobiography | the story of a person's life, written or told by that person |
| biography | the story of a real person's life, written or told by another person |
| character | a person or animal who takes part in the action of a story, play or other literary work |
| conflict | a struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces |
| connotation | the feelings and associations that a word suggests |
| denotation | the literal, dictionary definition of a word |
| description | the kind of writing that creates a clear image of something, usually by using details that appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch |
| dialect | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people |
| dialogue | a conversation between two or more characters |
| drama | a story written to be acted for an audience |
| essay | a short of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject |
| fable | a brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral or gives a practical lesson about how to get along in life |
| fiction | a prose account that is made up rather than true |
| figure of speech | a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true |
| flashback | an interruption in the action of a plot to tell what happened at an earlier time |
| folk tale | a story with no known author that originally was passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot |
| free verse | poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| irony | in general, a contrast between expectation and reality |
| metamorphosis | a marvelous change from one shape or form to another one |
| metaphor | an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing |
| mood | the overall emotion created by a work of literature |
| myth | a story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods or other superhuman beings |
| nonfiction | prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts |
| novel | a fictional story that is usually more than one hundred book pages long |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound echo their sense |
| personification | a figure of speech in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive |
| plot | the series of related events that make up a story |
| poetry | a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination |
| point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told |
| refrain | a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech |
| rhyme | the repetition of accented vowel sound and all sounds following them in words close together in a poem |
| rhythm | a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns |
| setting | the time and place in which the events of work of literature take place |
| short story | a fictional prose narrative that is usually ten to twenty book pages long |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as ,than, or resembles |
| speaker | the voice talking in a poem |
| stanza | in a poem a group of consecutive lines that forms a single unit |
| suspense | the uncertainty or anxiety you feel about what will happen next in a story |
| symbol | a person, a place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well |
| tall tale | an exaggerated, fanciful story that gets " taller and taller," more and more far-fetched, the more it is told and retold |
| theme | the truth about life revealed in a work of literature |
| tone | the attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |
| Ambiguity | to be unclear or not precise enough |
| Nuance | to find shades of meaning |
| Couplet | two rhymed lines that sum up a poem |
| Iambic | refers to verse in which the beat or stress is on every other syllable |
| Pentameter | poetry in which there is 5 stressed beats in every line |
| Epic Hero | a larger-than-life warrior |
| Refrain | repeated line |
| Hyperbole | exaggerations |
| Onomatopoeia | words with sounds that imitate or suggest their meaning |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together |
| Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhymes in a poem |
| Eye/Visual rhymes | “rhymes” involving words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently |
| Approximate/Near/Slant Rhymes | rhymes involving sounds that are similar, but not the same |
| Internal rhymes | rhymes within lines |
| End rhymes | rhymes at the ends of lines |
| Rhyme | the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together |
| Meter | a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Rhythm | the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Irony |
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