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* Cook - Reading Elements

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Antagoinist   A charcter in force with a main character or protagonist  
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Autobiography   A story of the writers own life told by the writer  
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Biography   A form of non fiction in which a writer tells a story about another person  
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Character   A person or an animal that takes part in a story  
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Climax   A high point in the action of the plot  
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Conflict   Struggle between opposing forces  
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Dialect   A form of language spoken by people  
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Dialogue   a conversation between two or more characters  
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Drama   A story made to be preformed by actors  
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Exposition   This is a part that introduces characters  
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External Conflict   When a charcter struggles against a force  
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Fable   A brief story or poem  
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Fantasy   A highly imanginative writing that contains elements not in real life  
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Fiction   A not true story something that can't be proven  
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Folk Tale   A story composed orally and then passed down to generations by mouth  
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Foreshawdoing   An authors use of clues to tell whats going to happen later on in the book  
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Genre   A division type of literature  
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Haiku   A three line Japanesse verse form when the first and third lines is 5 syllables and the second line is 7 syllables  
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Hero/Heroine   A charcters whos actions are inspiring  
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Historical Fiction   Real events, places, or people are incorporated in a fictional made up story  
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Internal Conflict   A place within the mind of a character  
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Irony   A contradiction between what happens and what is expected  
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Legend   A widley told story about the past  
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Main Character   The main person in a story  
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Metaphor   A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else  
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Mood   A feeling created in the reader  
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Moral   A lesson taught by literary work  
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Motive   A reason that explains a characters thoughts or feelings  
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Myth   A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heros or the origins of elements of nature  
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Narrative   A story that can be fiction or non fiction  
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Non Fiction   A story that is true and can be proven  
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Onomatopoeia   A use of words that imitate sounds  
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Oral Tradition   The passing of stories, songs, and poems from generation to gerneration by mouth  
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Personification   A type of figurtiave language  
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Perspective   The way a guy or girl sees things  
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Plot   The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next  
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Point of View   The perspective or the vantage point  
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Protagonist   The main character in literary work  
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Resolution   The outcome of the conflict in the plot  
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Science Fiction   Combines Science fanatsy and fiction  
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Sensory Language   Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses  
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Simile   A figure of speech that uses like or as  
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Symbolism   The use of symbols  
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Theme   A central message, concern, or purpose in literary work  
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Tone   The writers attitude toward the writing  
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