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Reading
Terms and Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allieration | the repetition of initial sounds in a sentence |
| antagonist | principal in opposition to the protagionast. Sometimes not a person but an obsticale such a force of nature society or inner conflict |
| antynom | a word that is the opposite ofanother word. |
| authors purpose | why did the author write the selection |
| autobiography | the story of a persons life written by the person |
| biography | the story of a persons life writtn by another person |
| Cause and effect | cause statements stem for actions and events and effects are what happen as a result of an action |
| characterization | the method an author uses to communicate info about the characters to the reader |
| climax | the moment when the action is the higest |
| compare and contrast | compare means to show similarities and contrast means to show differernces |
| conclusion | the end of the reading selection |
| conflict | struggle between opposing forces |
| C Vs. C | conflict between characters |
| C Vs. N | a character aganst a force in nature |
| C Vs. S | caracter vs an inner force |
| connections | text to self world or text |
| context clues | information within the reading selection |