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Academic Vocabulary2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Compare/Contrast | to note what is similar and different about two or more things. |
| Conclude | to make a decision about; decide. |
| Conflict | A struggle or a problem. |
| Connotation | something suggested by a word or thing. |
| Denotation | the dictionary definition of a word. |
| Describe | to tell or write about something. |
| Dialogue | The conversations that characters have with one another. Usually in quotation marks. |
| Evidence | something that furnishes proof. |
| Explicit | leaving no question as to meaning |
| Fable | a make-believe story that teaches a moral, especially with animals as characters. |
| Fairy-tale | a type of short story with fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic and enchantments. |
| Fiction | A literary work whose content is based on the imagination and not fact. |
| Figurative meaning | language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation, such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or symbolism. |
| Foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story. |
| Graphics | charts, graphs, and pictures that represent and show data related to, or elaborate on, something in the main body text. |