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Simile
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Comparing Two unlike Objects using LIKE or AS
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The clouds were LIKE gray woolly sheep.
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Metaphor
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Comparing two unlike objects NOT using LIKE or AS
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The clouds are gray woolly sheep
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Personification
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unhuman thing given human characteristics
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The trees waved
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alliteration
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two or more words that start with the same letter
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Bianca Baked Brownies
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onomatopoeia
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Sound word
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The door banged
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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I told you a million times
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repetitition
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repeat
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alone alone he was alone
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rhyme scheme
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pattern
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twinkle twinkle little star
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stanza
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section of a poem
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A Stanza consists of two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme and are used like paragraphs in a story.
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Plot
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events that occur in the story
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theme
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unifying idea
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friendship, love, survival, sacrifice
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conflict
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problem
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Brian is stranded
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resolution
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solution
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Brian is rescued
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climax
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turningpoint
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foreshadowing
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clues for upcoming events
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setting
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time and place of a story
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character
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the mental and moral qualities
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genre
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type of book, story
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fiction, non fiction, drama, comedy
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Author's purpose
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what the author wrote the story for
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entertainment, information
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cause
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something happens to have an effect
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the dog fell
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effect
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the effect of the cause
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the dog was injured
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fact
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something that can be proven
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there's 41 presidents in total
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opinion
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something that Cannot be proven
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i like her hair
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context clues
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way to find out a meaning or word
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infer
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is the act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true
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