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Reading
terns and defintions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | The repetion of initial consonant sounds in a sentence.sweet smell of success. |
| antagonist | principal character in opposition to the protagnist. somtimes not a person but an obstacle such as force of nature, society or inner conflict. |
| Antonym | a word that is the opposite of another word |
| Authors purpose | Why did the author write the selection? is the purpose to entertain,to inform or pursuade?Skim the selection and attempt to determine the author's purpose before you read the selection. |
| autobiography | the story of a persons life written by the person. |
| Biography | The story of a persons life written by another person |
| Cause and effect | cause statements stem for actions and events, and effects are what happen as a result of the event or action |
| characterization | The method an author uses to communicate information about the characters reader. the methoda iniclude: the characters appearance, the characters actions, the characters thoughts, the charaters conversations. |
| Climax | The moment when the action of the story comes to its highest point. This usually occurs at the end of the story just before the resolution. |
| Compare and contrast | Compare means to show similarities and contrast means to show differences |
| Conclusion | The end of the reading selection |
| conflict | the stuggle between opposing forces in literature |
| Character vs. Character | a conflict between characters such as family conflict, trouble with a bully or difficulties in romance. this type of conflict is external. |
| Character vs. Nature | A conflict between a character and a force in nature such as a tornado, avalanch,weather condtions or any type of natural disater. This type of conflict is external. |
| Character vs. self | takes place in a characters mind. the character has to decide between two different descions. |
| Connections | text to self;worl;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 he meanings of challinging words. |
| dialogue | the actual words that the character speaks |
| evaluate | to examin and judge |
| Exposition | The backround information that the author provides about the setting, plot,character or other essential story elements |
| Expository text | text written to explain and convey infrmtion about a spesific topic |
| Fable | a narritive intend to convey a moral or lesson to the reader |
| Fact vs. opinion | Somthing that can be proven true,or someones point of view. |
| Falling action | The part of the story thats after the climax where there is a sharp decline in dramatic tension; occurs befor resolutin. |
| Fiction | Any story that is the product of imagination rather than fact. |
| Figurative Language | Languge that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect. |
| Flash Back | a tecnique in which the autohr interrupts the plot of the story to recreate an incident of an earlier time. |
| Folktales | stories passed through generations. |
| Foreshadowing | a written 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 | categories of literature |
| Graphic organizer | a diagram that is used to represnt informtion. |
| Homonym | two or more words that aound the same but look different. eight and ate. |
| hyperbole | an exaggerated used to make a strong effect. "i'm dying of thirst" |
| Imagery | words or phrases used specifically to help the reader to imagine each of the sences. smell, touch |
| inferences | reading between the lines. taking what the author wrote and adding it to what you already know to make an assumption. |
| irony | A tone that is created when the speaker intends to mean that which is opposite to the words they are saying. |
| Judge | To say if something is good or bad-if you like it or you don't. |
| Limerick | Light or humoruos verse. |
| Metaphor | a comparisom between two unlike things without using the words like or as. |
| mood | the overall feeling created by the author's words. |
| Narrator | the speaker of the story. |
| non-fiction | A writing that is true and the purpose is to inform. |
| onomatopoeia | Words whose sounds express their meaning. |
| oxymoron | putting two contradictory words together. Example Jumbo shrimp. |
| Paraphase | restate in your own words. |
| Personification | giving lifelike Charateristics to a non-living object. |
| Plot | the events that occur in the story begiinig with the setting and ending with the resolution. |
| poetry | writing that expresses the idea through rythmic patterns and fugurative language. |
| point of view | perspective from which the story is being told. |
| Third person limited point of view | the story is told from the view pint of a character. |
| Third Person omniscient point of view | instead of being a charater in a story , the narrator is outside the story so the thoughts of all of the characters are presented. |
| prediction | Making an educated guess as to what will happen next. |
| Prefix | Letters added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning. |
| Protagonist | The central character in a story that is the "good guy" |
| Reaction/react | offer your own oppinion of the reading material. |
| Resolution | occurs at the end of the 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 to which prefixes and suffixes are added. |
| Sequential order | order in which the events in the story occur. |
| Setting | the enviornment of time and place where the action of a story occurs. |
| Simile | a comparison using the words like or as. |
| suffix | letters placed at the end of a word to change it's meaning |
| Summarizing | a concise a short yet detailed explanation of a reading selection. |
| Supporting details | details that support the main idea of the passage. |
| Suspense | techniques used by the author to keep readers interested in the story and wondering what will happen next. |
| symbol | an image, object,charater, or action that stands for an idea beyond its literal meaning. |
| Synonym | two or more words that mean the same or nearly the same meaning. |
| theme | the underlying message of the selection that the autor is trying to convey or communicate to the reader. |
| tone | the clues of the story that suggest the writers own attude towards elements in the story |
| visualization | the ability to "see" what you are reading |
| voice | is the authors style...the qualite that makes their writing unique. |
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