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Reading
Stack #199866
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alitereation | the repetition of inital consonant sounds in words in a sentence. |
| Antagonist | principal character in opposition to the protagonist |
| Antonym | opposite of a word |
| Authors Purpose | Why did the author write the sentence |
| Autobiography | story of a persons life written by the person |
| Biography | the story of a person's life written by another person |
| cause and effect | the cause statement stem for actions and events,and effects are what happen as aresult |
| Characterization | the method an author usese to communicate information about the characters to the reader |
| climax | the moment when the action of the story comes to its highest point |
| compare and contrast | similarities and contrast meeans to show differences |
| conclusion | the end of the reading selection |
| conflict | struggle between opposing forces in literature |
| connections | text to text.world ,or self |
| contex clues | information within the reading selection that helps the reader figure out the meaninng of the hard word |
| Dialouge | the actual words that the character speaks |
| Evaluate | to examine and judge |
| Exposition | backround information the authr sets fo the plot setting,character,or other essential story elements |
| Expository Text | text written to explain and convey information about a specific topic |
| fable | a naritive intended to convey a moral or lesson to the reader |
| facts vs opinions | someones point of view or something that can be proven true |
| falling action | a sharp decline in dramatic tension after th climax |
| fiction | story that is made up |
| figuaritive language | language that can not be taken literally since it was written to create a special effort |
| flashbook | techniques in which the author interrupts the plot of the story to recreate an incendent of an early time |
| folktales | stories passed through generations |
| foreshadowing | a writing technique that gives readers clues about events that will happen later in the story |
| generalizations | when you make assumptions about different events and characters and apply the to new situations |
| genre | catogories of literature |
| graphic organizer | a diagram that is used to make a strong effect |
| homonym | 2 or more like sound alike different maenings |
| hyperbole | exaggerated statement used to make a strong statement |
| imagery | things used to help imagine each of the senses |
| inference | reading between the lines |
| irony | a tone that is created when speaker intends to mean that which is oposite to the words they say |
| judge | to say if something is good or bad |
| limerick | light or humoreus verse |
| metaphor | using like or as comparsison |
| mood | the overall feeling created by the authos words |
| narator | the speaker of the story |
| nonfiction | real story |
| onomatopoeia | words which sound expresses their meaning |
| oxymoron | putting 2 contradictory words together |
| paraphase | restate in your own words |
| personification | when you give life to an animate object |
| plot | the events that occur in the story beginning with the setting |
| poetry | writing that expresses ideas throgh rhythmic patterns and figuartive language |
| point of view | prospective from which the story is being told |
| prediction | educated guess |
| prefix | letters beginning of word that change meaning |
| protagonist | central character in a story that is goo guy |
| reaction/react | offer your own opinion of reading material |
| resoulution | occurs end of story after climax |
| rising actoin | part of story which builds up the climax |
| root word | word withot prefix or suffies added |
| sequential order | order in wich events in the story are presented to the reader |
| setting | where story takes place |
| simile | using like or as |
| suffix | letters at end of word to change meaning |
| summarizing | a concise explanation of a reading selection |
| supporting details | details that support main idea of passage |
| suspense | tequnegqe used by author to keep reader wondering |
| symbol | something that stands for something else |
| synonym | two or more words with same kind of meaning |
| theme | uderling message of the selection that the author is trying to convey or communicate to the reader |
| tone | clues of the story that suggest the writers own aditude toward story |
| visualization | ability to see what tou are reading |
| voice | authors style that makes it unique |
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