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vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| narrator | speaker or the person who is telling the story |
| context clues | Clues in text that help the reader deter the meaning of a word |
| flash backs | when the story goes back in time |
| stage direction | instruction for actor |
| fiction | literary work that is not real. It is usually made up. |
| onomatopoeia | an exaggeration |
| hyperbole | collecting clues to make and inference |
| climax | the turning point of the story |
| expository | text that informs, gives instructions and is non fiction |
| main idea | the central idea or message of a story |
| conflict | the problem of the story |
| dialogue | a conversation between 2 people |
| metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things with out using like or as |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| setting | when and where the story takes place |
| suffix | a word part that can be added to the end of a word to make a new word |
| foreshadow | clues that indicate something will happen later on in the story or future |
| text features | words that represents sounds |
| author's purpose | The reason the story is written to persuade, inform, entertain or explain |
| point of view | the perspective from witch the story is told |
| stanza | the paragraph in a poem |
| resolution | the solution to a problem or a final outcome of a story |
| personification | giving human qualities to non-human things |
| drama | a story written to be preformed by actors/a play |
| simile | comparing to things using like or as |
| autobiography | the story of a person life written by that person |
| playwright | person who wrote a play/drama |
| theme | what a peace is manly about |
| prefix | a word part that can be added to the beginning of a word to make |