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Reading
terms and definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repitition of constant sounds in words in a sentence. |
| Atagonist | principal character in opposition to the protagonist. Sometimes not person but an obstacle such as a force of nature, society, or inner conflict. |
| Antonym | a word that is the oppisite of another word. |
| Author's Purpose | Why did the author write this selection? Is the purpose to entertain, inform, or to persuade? |
| Autobiography | a story of someones life written by the person. |
| Biography | a story of someones life written by another person. |
| Cause and Effect | cause statements stem for actions and events, and effects happen as a result of the cause. |
| Characterization | the method an aouthor uses to communicate information about the characters to the readers. |
| Climax | the moment when the action of a story comes to its highest point. |
| Compare and Contrast | compare means to show similarites and contrast means to show differences. |
| conclusion | the end of the readind selection. |
| Conflict | struggle between two opposing forces in literature. |
| Character vs Character | a conflict between characters such as family conflict, trouble with a bully, or difficulties in romance.An external confict. |
| Character vs Nature | a conflict between a character and a force in nature such as a tornado, or avalanche. An external conflict. |
| Character vs Self | this is an internal conflict because the struggle takes place in the characters mind. |
| connections | text to self, world, or text. The reader can connect what he has read with something else. |
| Context Clues | information within the reading selection that helps the reader figure out the readings of challenging words. |
| Dialouge | the actual words that the character speaks. |
| Evaluate | to examine and judge. |
| Exposition | the introduction of a story. |
| Expository Text | text written to explainand convey information about a specific topic. |
| Fable | a narritive intended to convey a moral or lesson to the reader. |
| Fact vs Opinion | it is something that can be proven to be true,or it is just someone else's point of veiw. |
| Falling Action | the part of the story following the climaxwhere there is a sharp declinein dramatic tension, this occurs just before the resolution. |
| Fiction | any story that is the product of imagination rather than fact. |
| Figurative Language | language that can not be tacken literally since it was written to create a special affect. |
| Flashback | technique in which the author interrupts the plot of the story to recreate a incident of an earlier time. |
| Folktales | stories passed through generations. |
| Foreshadowing | a writing technique that gives readers cluesabout 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. |
| Genere | categories of literature. |
| Graphic organizer | a diagram that is used to represent information. |
| Homonym | two or more words that are pronounced alike, but have different meanings. |
| Hyberbole | an exaggerated statement used to make a strong effect. |
| Imagery | words words and phrases used specifically to help the reader imagine each of the senses. |
| Inference | reading between the lines. |
| Irony | a tone that is created when the speaker intends that which is oppisite to the words they are saying. |
| Judge | to say if something is good or bad. |
| Limerick | light or humorous verse. |
| Metaphor | a comparision between two unlike things without using like or as. |
| Mood | the overall feeling created by the authors words. |
| Narrator | the speaker of the story. |
| Non-fiction | writing that is true and the purpose is to inform. |
| Onomatopeia | words whose sounds express their meanings. |
| 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 th story beginning with the setting and ending with the resolution. |
| Poetry | writing that expresses ideas through rhythmitic 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 beginnig of a word to change its meaning. |
| Protagonist | the central character in a story that is the "good guy." |
| Reaction/React | offer your own opinion of the reading material. |
| Resolution | occurs at hte end of a story and includes the story's action after the climax. |
| Rising Action | the part of the story, including the exposition which builds to the climax. |
| Root word | a word in which prefixes and suffixes are added. |
| Sequential Order | order in which the events in the story are presented to the reader. |
| Setting | the place where a story takes place. |
| Simile | a comparision between two unlike things by using the word like or as. |
| Suffix | letters placed at the end of a word to change its meanings. |
| summarizing | a concise explanation of a reading selection. |
| supporting details | details that support the main idea of the passage. |
| suspense | techniques used by the author to keep the reader interested in the story and wonder what will happen next. |
| symbol | 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 main idea or moral of a reading selection. |
| Tone | the clues of the story that suggests the writer's own attitude toward elements in the story. |
| Visualization | the ability to "see" what you are reading. |
| Voice | voice is the author's style, the quality that makes his or her writing unigue. |
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