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Reading
English vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | the rpetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Antagonists | principal character in opposition with the protagonist |
| Antonym | a word that is the opposite of another word |
| Author's Purpose | why did the author write the text? |
| Autobiography | the story of a preson's life written by the person |
| Biography | the story of a person's life written by another person |
| Cause and Effect | cause statements stem for actions and events |
| Characterization | the method an author uses to communicate the information about the characters to read |
| Climax | the moment when the actions of the story are at their highest point |
| Compare and Contrast | compare is the alikes and contrast are the differences |
| Conclusion | the end result of the reading |
| conflict | struggle between opposing forces in nature |
| Connections | text to self,world,or text. |
| Context Clues | information within the reading selection that helps the reader figure out what complicated words mean |
| Dialogue | the actual words that the character speaks |
| Evaluate | to examine and judge |
| Exposition | the background information that the author provides about the setting |
| Expository Text | text written to explain information |
| Fable | a narrative intended to make a moral |