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48 Cards in this Set
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theme
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message
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genre
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type of literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, folktale, fable, myth)
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characters
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people or animals in the story
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plot
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events, what happened
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conflict
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problem
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resolution
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how the problem is solved
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conclusion
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the end
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introduction
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the beginning
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setting
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where and when
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author's purpose
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why it was written
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mood
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feeling
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tone
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author's attitude
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alliteration
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repeats the same sound (sneaky snake)
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onomatopoeia
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sound, noise (boom, thud, ring)
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simile
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compares with like or as (He is as slow as a turtle. Her shirt is yellow like the sun.)
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metaphor
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compares without like or as (The clouds were a curtain in front of the sun.)
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personification
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animals or objects are given human qualities
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hyperbole
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exaggeration (He was so tall his head hit the clouds.)
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imagery
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describes using the senses (smell, touch, sight, hearing, taste)
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novel
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chapter book
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fiction
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did not really happen
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non-fiction
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true story
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drama
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play
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poetry
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expresses feelings and emotions, musical
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myths
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gods interfering in people's lives
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compare and contrast
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tell how things are alike and different
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cause and effect
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It rained (cause) and I got wet (effect).
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end rhyme
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rhyme at the end of 2 lines
(there was a cat who was wearing a hat) |
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internal rhyme
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rhyme inside a line of poetry (There was a man from Japan.)
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rhyme scheme
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pattern of rhymes at the end of lines
(There was a man A from Japan A he was sad B and so was his dad B) |
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meter
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pattern of syllables that make the rhythm
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legend
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story handed down about a person (hero)
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main idea
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big idea, most important message, the whole point of the story
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autobiography
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true story about your own life
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biography
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true story about someone else's life
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chronological order
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order that events happened in time
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climax
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most exciting part of a story, turning point
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dialogue
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words characters speak
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fable
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teaches a lesson, animal characters
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moral
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the lesson
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folk tale
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a story passed on from generation to generation, set in the past
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point of view
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the opinion of the author, the perspective from which the story is told
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topic sentence
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tells the main idea of the paragraph
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idiom
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common phrase that says one thing but means another (These shoes cost me an arm and a leg.)
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persuade
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convince
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stanza
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a paragraph in a poem
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symbol (symbolism)
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something that stands for something else (flag symbolizes a country)
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logical order
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an order that's easy to understand
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