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Reading
Terms and definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The repiting of sounds Example: dime a dozen |
| Antagonist | Princible character in the opposite to the protagonist |
| Antonym | the opposite of a word |
| Autobiograph | a story that s about the person that worte it |
| Biograph | a book about somebody's life that someone else wrote |
| Cause & Effect | Something that causes somehting else to happen |
| Characterization | how the author makes a charaiter look |
| Climax | The most suspensful piont in the story |
| Compare & Contrast | Look at the similarities & differences |
| Conclusion | the end of the story |
| Conflict | The strugle between opposing forces in the reading |
| Character vs. Character | a person fights another person |
| Character vs. Nature | a person is facing weather or a body of water |
| Character vs. Self | a person fights his morels and what he did |
| Connections | how you compare the text to something else |
| Context Clues | information in the text that helps reader figure out words |
| Dialogue | the words the character really says |
| Evaluate | to examine |
| Exposition | the setting |
| Exposition Text | Text written to explain a specific topic |
| Fable | a story that gives a mooral or leason |
| Fact vs. Opinion | something that can be proven true against someone's opinion |
| Falling Action | Stuff that happens after the climax |
| Fiction | any story that isn't 100% true |
| Figurative Langauge | Langauge that shouldn't be taken to literally |
| Flashback | something that happened in the past that the author put in to let you know what happened before the begining of the story |
| Folktales | stories handed down of generactions |
| Foreshadowing | hints of what will happen later in the stories |
| Generalizations | when you make assumptions about things like events and characters |
| Genre | categories of literature |
| Graphic organizer | a dagram that is used to represent info. |
| Homonym | 2 or more words that sound the same, but mean differant things |
| Hyperbole | exaggerated statement ex I'm dying of thrist |
| Imagery | words that help the reader imagine the feeling or sent |
| Inference | reading betweeen the lines or what you think will happen |
| Irony | the tone of the scene for that prt of the story |
| Jude | to say if something is good or bad |
| Limerick | light or funny verse |
| Metaphor | a comparison of 2 things that are unlike without using like or as |
| Mood | over all felling made by the authors words |
| Narrator | speaker of the story |
| Nonfiction | it really happened nothing false in it |
| Onomatopoeia | words whose sounds express their meaning |
| Oxymoron | putting 2 contradictory words together ex pretty ugly |
| Paraphase | restate in your own words |
| Personification | giving lifelike characteristics to nonliving objects |
| Plot | events that define the story |
| poetry | writing that expresses ideas through rythmic patterens and figurative language |
| piont of view | who is telling the story |
| Prediction | making an educated guessas to what will happen next |
| Prefix | letters added to the begining of a word to change its meaning |
| Protagonist | the main "good guy" |
| Reaction/react | offer your own oppinion to the reading matteral |
| Resolution | the end of the story |
| Rising action | stuff that happens before the climax |
| Root word | word which pefixes and suffixes or added to |
| Seuential Order | orderin which the events are told in the story |
| Setting | the time and place the story is happening |
| Simile | a compareison between 2 things that are unlike that use like or as |
| Suffix | letters placed at the end of the word to change it's meaning |
| Summarizing | a short, detiled explantion of what you read |
| Supporting detiles | detiles that support the main idea of the passage |
| Suspense |
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2014yeichrm
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