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terms and definitions
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Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words in a sentence. |
Atagonist | Principal character in opposition to the protagonist. Sometimes not a person but a obstacle such as a force of nature, society or inner conflict. |
Antonym | A word that is opposite of another word. |
Autobiography | A story of a person's life writen by the person. |
Biography | A story of a person's life writen by another person. |
Cause and Efffect | Cause statements stem for actions and events, and effects are what happens as a result of the event or action. |
Characterization | The method an auther uses 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 | Compare means to show similarities and contrast means to show differences. |
Conclusion | The end of the reading selection. |
Conflict | Struggle between opposing forces in literature. |
Character vs. Character | A conflict between characters such as family conflict, trouble with a bully or difficulties in romance. |
Character vs. Nature | A conflict between a character and a force of nature such as a tornado, avalanche, xtreme weather conditions or any type of natural disaster. |
Character vs. Self | This is an internal conflict because the struggle takes place in a character's mind. |
Connections | Text to self; world; or text. The reader can connect what he has read with something else. |
Context Clues | In formation within the reading selection that helps the reader figure out the meanings of challenging words. |
Dialouge | The actual words that the character speaks. |
Evaluate | To examine and judge. |
Exposition | The backround informationthat the auther provides about the setting, plot, character or essential story elements. |
Expository Text | Text writen to complain and convey information about aspecific topic. |
Fable | A narrative intended to convey a moral or lesson to the reader. |
Fact vs. Opinion | Is it something that can be proven to be true, or is it just someone else's point of view? |
Falling Action | The part of the story following the climax where there is a sharp decline in dramatic tension; this occurs just before the resolution. |
Fiction | Any story that is a product of imagination rather than fact. |
Figurative Language | Language that can not be taken literally since it was writen to creat a special effect. |
Flashback | Technique in which the auther interrupts the plot of the story to recreate an incident of earlier time; flashback is often used to provide additional information to the reader. |
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/or characters and apply them to new situations. |
Genre | Catigories of literature-mystery, horror, suspence, realistic, sports, historical, adventure, ect. |
Graphic Organizer | A diagram that is used to represent information-Venn Diagram, T-chart, Sequence Chart, Cause-Effect Chart, ect. |
Homonym | Two or more that are pronounced alike but have different meanings. |
Hyperbole | An exaggerated statement used to make a strong effect. |
Imagery | Words and phrases used specifically to help the reader to image each of the sences: Smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste. |
Inference | Reading between the lines. |
Irony | A tone that is created whenthe speaker intends to mean that which is opposite to the words they are saying. |
Judge | To say if someone is good or bad-if you like ti or you don't. |
Limerick | Light or humorous verse. |
Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as. |
Mood | The overall feeling created by the auther's words. |
Narrator | The speaker of the story. |
Nonfiction | Writing that is true and the purpose is to inform. |
Onomatopoeia | Words whose sounds express their meaning. |
Oxymoron | Putting two contradictory words together. |
Paraphrase | Restate in your own words. |
Personification | Giving lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. |
Plot | The events that occur in the story beginning with the setting and ending with the resolution. |
Poetry | Writing that expresses ideas through rythmitic patterns and figurative language. |
Point of View | Perspective from which the story is being told. |
Prediction | Making and educated guess as to what will happen next. |
Prefix | Letters added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning. |
Protagonst | The central character in a story that is the "good guy". |
Reaction/React | Offer your own opinion of the reading material. |
Resolution | Occurs at the end of the story and includes the story's action after 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 to the reader. |
Setting | The environment of time and place where the action of a story occurs. |
Simile | A comparison between two unlike things by using the words like or as. |
Suffix | Letters placed at the end of a word to change its meaning. |
Summarizing | A consice explanation of a reading selection. |
Supporting Details | Details that support the main idea of the passage. |
Suspence | Techniques used by the auther ot keep the readers interested in the story and wondering what will happen next. |
Symbole | An image, object, character or action that stands for an idea beyond its literal meaning. |
Synonym | Two or more words that have highly similar meanings. |
Theme | The underlying message of the selaction that the author is trying to convey or communicate to the reader. |
Tone | The clues of the story that suggest the writers own attitude toward elements in the story. |
Visualization | The ability to "see" what you are reading. |
Voice | Voice is the auther's style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique. |