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Reading Vocab 8.25
Reading Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| foreshadowing | a storytelling tool |
| plot | a sequence of events that make up a story in a book, movie, or play |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying one thing is another |
| symbolism | practice of using a person, object, or situation or word to represent a deeper meaning beyond its literal sense |
| theme | the central message underlining meanings or main idea that an author weaves through a story, movie, or piece of art |
| context clues | hints an extra information in a sentence or passage that helps a reader figure out the meaning of a new or difficul word without reading a dictionary. |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem that form a single unit |
| fiction | any story or creative work made up from the writers mind |
| suffix | a letter or a group of letters added to the end of a base word |
| setting | the time place and general environment where some things happen or a specific control level on a machine |
| genre | a category of art, writings, movies, or films that are set apart by a particular style form or content |
| simile | a figure of speech that combines two different things using like or as |
| first person | a story telling style where a character in the story narrates the events from their own perspective using pronouns like I me my and me. |
| mood | a temporary state of mind or feeling such as being happy, sad, or cranky |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggerated to hymn to make a point show string feelings or add humor |
| synonym | a significant sense definition and purpose |
| chronological | arranged in the order of events that happen in time starting with the earliest and moving forward to the most recent |
| conflict | a clash or struggle between people, groups, or a opposing fornces |
| tone | the attitude, quantity or mood of a sound, a pierce of sound or a color |
| personificarion | a figure of speech that gives human traits emotions or actions to non human things like objects, animals, or items |
| imaginary | the use of descriptive language by writers to appeal to the five senses sight, sound, smell, taste and touch |
| protagonist | the main character in a book, movie, play or story |
| moral | relates to the principals of right and wrong behavior |
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