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Essential Vocab 1-15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Genre | A category of literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content Kind of book |
| Fiction | A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact. Not real. |
| Drama | A prose or verse composition, telling a serious story that is intended to be acted for theatre, television, radio, or the cinema |
| Mystery | A work of fiction, drama, or film dealing with a puzzling crime |
| Nonfiction | A piece of writing using only facts True |
| Poetry | A piece of literature written in meter; verse. Doesn’t have to rhyme and is written in a short choppy form |
| Autobiography | A person’s life story written by themselves Auto = Self Autobiography = Self written |
| Biography | A person’s life story written by someone else |
| Noun | The name of a person, place thing or idea. dog, table, Sylvia, honesty |
| Verb | A word that shows action or links the subject to the predicate of a sentence. jump, run, have, was |
| Pronoun | A word used as a substitute for a noun I, me, you, us, we, they, them, anyone |
| Adjective | A word that describes a noun or a pronoun The beautiful, young girl was singing. |
| Adverb | A word that describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb. A very happy puppy wiggled excitedly through the door. |
| Preposition | A word used to show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun to some other word in the sentence in, above, over, under, outside, around |
| Conjunction | a word that joins words, phrases and clauses and, yet, because, but, either…or, neither…nor |
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