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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | the repetition of beginning consonant sounds. EX smelly stinky success |
| Antonym | a word that is the opposite of another word |
| Antagonist | main character in opposition to the protagonist/ An obstical for the person |
| Author's Purpose | The athour's porpose for writing the section |
| Autobiography | the story of a persons life written by the person |
| Biography | the story of a person's life writen by another person |
| Characterization | the methiod an author uses to communicate inforation about the other characters |
| Compair and contrast | Compairing the same things and telling why they are different. |
| Climax | the moment when the story reaches it's hightets piont |
| Conclusion | the end of the story |
| Conflict | the struggle between opposing forces in literature |
| Character vs. Character | When the charecter has a conflict with another charecter in the story |
| Character vs. Nature | It is when a charecter has a conflict with nature |
| Character vs. Self | It is when te charecter has a confilc with his or her self |
| Connections | the reader can connect or relate to what they have read in the text. |
| Contextclues | Information within the reading the that helps the reader figure out meanings of challenging words |
| Dialogue | the actul words/conversation that the character says to another characer |
| Evaluate | to examine and judge to say if something is good or bad |
| Exposition | the backround information that the athour provides about the events |
| Expository text | text writen to explain and convey nformation about a specific topic |
| Fable | a narrative intenned covay a moral or lession of the story |
| Fact vs. opinoin | fact is somthing that is true and an oppinion is when a persions pion of view |
| Falling action | the part of a story when there is a sharp decline in action |
| Fiction | any story that is a product imagination rather than fact. |
| Figurative language | language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to creat a special effect. |
| Flashback | it is when the athour talks about somthing and talks abu somthing in feauter time. |
| Foreshadowing | Techique in which the author provides the reader with clues about events that will happen later in the story |
| Generalizatins | when yu make assumptions about different events that apply to new stuations |
| Genre | catagories of literature such as biography and mystery |
| Graphic organizer | an oranzational picture such as Venn Diagram or webbeing |
| Homophone/ homonym | two or more words that are pronced alike but are differant means |
| Hyperbole | an exggerated statmant to make a strong effect |
| Imagery | words and phrases used to make the reader under stand what senes the characher is useing |
| Inferance | reading bettween the lines to make an assumption |
| Irony | a differance bettween what is excepeced and what happens |
| Dramatic irony | occurs when an event is the direct oppisite of what the charecters and reader thought would happen |
| Situational irony | occurs when there is an contradictin between what the charcher thinks and the reader knws to be true |
| Metaphor | a comparioson between to unlike things without using the words like or as |
| Mood | the overall feelingcreated by the athours words |
| Narrator | the specer of the story |
| Nofiction | writting about true events and people |
| Onmatooeia | words whose sounds exprees there meaning |
| Oxymoron | putting two cntradictory words two gether |
| Paraphrase | Is is to restate the reading section with more than details |
| Plot | the events in a story that begging with a setting and end with a resaloition |
| Piont of view | Perspective from which the story is begging told?first second or third |
| Limited Point of view | It is in which the reader is only expossed to what the charecter experinces |
| Omniscint point of view | It is when the narrator tells you what the charachters are thinking |
| Prediction | making an educated quss as to what will happen next |
| perfix | letter added to the begging of a word to change the meaning |
| Protagonist | the central charecter in a story that is the good guy who the reader says |
| Personifcation | giving life like chareteristecs to some thing not livving |
| Resolution | occors at the end of a story soon after th climax |
| Rising action | the part of the story building to the climax |
| Root word | a word to which prefixes and suffixes are added |
| Sequential order | order in which the events in the story are presented by the reader |
| Setting | the enviroment of time in which the story is taking place |
| Simile | a copariosion in which useing like and as |
| Suffix | letters placed at the end of a word to change it's meanings |
| Summary | It is a shoterend part of the story with main details |
| Supporting details | details that support the mian idea of the passage |
| Symbol | an image object that stands beyond the litteral meaning |
| Synonym | two or more words that have highly simmular meanings |
| theme | the meaning of the text |
| tone | the cluse of the story that suggests the righter own thoughts |
| Visualization | the ability to see what your reading |
| voice | the authors style the quality that makes his our her writting unique |
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2014BorAntD
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