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Mrs. Oates
Reading Terms 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Main Idea | what a piece of writing is mostly about |
| theme | central message or deeper meaning |
| genre | some examples are fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry |
| fiction | tells a made up story |
| nonfction | tells about real life people, places , events, or thngs |
| drama | a play performed by actors |
| myth | a story about gods and goddesses |
| fable | a tale with talking animals that has a moral to it |
| analogy | shows a comparison between two things |
| simile | compares using the words like or as |
| metaphor | compares without using the words like or as |
| context clues | anything that helps you learn the meaning of an unknown word |
| denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word (its literal meaning) |
| connotation | the meaning we give to it, usually slang language |
| onomatopoeia | a word or phrase that imitates a sound |