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Terms And Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aliteration | The repition of Iniitial conconant sounds in words in a sentence. Ex sweet smell of sucess |
| Antagonist | principle character in opposition to the protagonist |
| Antonym | A word that is the opposite of another word |
| Authors Purpose | Why did the writer write this selection |
| Autobiograpy | The story of a persons life writtem by another person |
| Biography | A story of a persons life written by the person |
| Cause and Effect | Something that happens and then what happens after it |
| Characterization | the method an author uses to communucate information about the characters to the reader |
| climax | The point in the story with high action |
| Compare and contrast | Show liknesses and differences |
| Conclusion | The end of the Reading selection |
| Conflict | strugggle between oposing foes |
| Conclusion | The end of the reading selection |
| Charat vs character | a conflict between characters |
| Character vs Nature | a conflict between a character and a force in nature |
| Conections | Text to self,world or text |
| Context clues | information within the reading selection that helps the reader make out hard words. |
| Dialouge | The actual words that the character speaks |
| Evaluate | To Examine and Judge |
| Exposition | the background information that the author provides about the setting,plot, or character |
| Expository Text | text written to explain information about a topic |
| Fable | a narrative intended to convoy a moral or lessen |
| Fact vs Opinion | is it something thts true or is it just a point of view? |
| Falling Action | the part of the story following the climax with a decline in tension |
| Fiction | Any story that is the product of imagination |
| Figurative Language | words that can not be taken literaly |
| Folktales | stoires passed though generations |
| Foreshadowing | clues to events yet to come |
| Generalization | whn you make an assumption and apply to a new event |
| Genre | categories of literature Ex history horror |
| Graphic Organizer | T chart Venn Diagram are examples |
| Homonym | two or more words that sound alike but have different meanings |
| Hyperbole | an exageration to make a strong effect |
| Imagery | words and phrases used specifically to help the reader imagine eacg of the senses |
| Inference | reading between the lines. Using what you already know |
| Irony | a tone that is created when the speaker intends to mean that which is opposite to the words that they are saying |
| Judge | to say if something is good or bad |
| Limerick | light or funny verse |
| Metaphor | a comparison between ywo unlike things not using like or as |
| Mood | the over all feeling created by the words |
| Narrator | the speaker of the story |
| Nonfiction | writing that is true and is to inform |
| Onomatatopoeia | words that express their meanings |
| Oxymoron | putting two contradictory words togeather |
| Paraphase | restate your your own words |
| Personification | giving lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects |
| Plot | the events that occur in the story beginining with the setting and ending and resolution |
| Poetry | writing that expresses ideas through a pattern of some sort |
| point of view | perspective from which the story is being told |
| Third Person | the reader is only exposed to what the character experiences |
| Third person omniscent | all toughts of the character are presented |
| prediction | making an educated guess |
| prefix | letters added to the beggining of words to change meanings |
| Protagonist | the good guy |
| Reaction | offer your own opinion to the material |
| Resolution | occurs at the end of the story |
| Rising action | the part that builds to the climax |
| root word | a word to which prefixes and suffixses are added |
| sequential order | the way the events are presented to the reader |
| setting | the environment where everything takes place the time period |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things by using 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 readers interested in the story and wandering what will happen next |
| symbol | an image,object,character,or action that stands for an idea beond its literal meaning |
| synonym | two or more words that have highly similar meanings |
| theme | the underlying message of the selection 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 authors style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique |
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