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98 Cards in this Set
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Affix
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One or more letters occuring as a bound form attached to the beginning or end of a word or base.
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Alliteration
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The repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.
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Allusion
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An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place or event.
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Analysis
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The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and thier relationships to one another.
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Antonym
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A word that is the opposite of another word (e.g. hot-cold, night-day)
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Appositive
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When to usually adjacent nous have the same referent stand next to the other one (e.g. My father, Ned)
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Assertion
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A declaration, statement, allegation or claim.
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Author's Purpose
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The author's intent either to inform or teach someting about something, to entertain people, or to persuade or convince their audience to do or not to something
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Author's Thesis
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The topic and a specific feeling or idea associated with it. The thesis can be directly stated or implied in the examples and illustrations used by the author.
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Bias
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A judgment based on a personal point of view.
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Biography
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The story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work.
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Cause and Effect
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Cause statements stem from actions and events, and effects are what happen as a result of the action or event.
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Characterization
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The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities.
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Climax
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The turning point in a narrative, the moment when the conflict is at its most intense.
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Compare
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Placing together characters, situations or ideas to show common or differing features in literary selections.
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Compound Words
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A word composed of two or more smaller words (e.g. wallpaper)
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Conclusion
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The ending of the story or the summarization of ideas or closing argument in nonfictional texts.
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Conflict/Problem
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A sturggle or clash between opposing characters, forces or emotions.
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Content Specific Words
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Core vocabulary that is peculiar to an academic subject.
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Context Clues
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Information from the reading that identifies a word or group of words
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Contrast
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To compare or appraise differences.
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Conventions of Language
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Mechanics, usage and sentence completeness
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Descriptive Text
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Descriptive writing is intended to allow a reader to picture the scene or setting in which the action of a story takes place.
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Dialogue
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In its widest sense, dialoge is simply conversation between people in a literary work.
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Differentiate
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Distinguish, tell apart and recognize differences between two or more items.
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Editorials
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A newspaper or magazine article that gives the opinions of the editors or publishers; an expression nof opinion that resembles such an article
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Epic
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A long narrative poem about the adventures of a her of great historic or legendary importance
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Evaluate
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To examine and to judge carefully
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Exaggeration
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To make an overstatement or to stretch the truth.
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Exaggeration
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To make an overstatement or to stretch the truth.
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Explanatory Sentence
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A sentence that explains something (i.e. passage, paragraph, word)
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Explicit
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Referring to specific text that is included in the reading passage or in the directions.
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Expository Text
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Text written to explain and convey information about a specific topic. Contrasts with narrative text.
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Fable
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Narrative intended to convey a moral. Animals or inanimate objects with human characteristics often serve as characters in fables.
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Fairy Tale
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Short narratives featuring mythical beings such as fairies, elves and spirits. These tales originally belonged to the folklore of a particular nation or region, such as those collected in Germany by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
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Fiction
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Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact. Characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life but their ultimate form and configuration is a creation fo the author.
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Figurative Language
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Language that cannot be taken ltierally since it was written to creat a special effect or feeling.
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Figurative Language
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Language that cannot be taken ltierally since it was written to creat a special effect or feeling.
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First Person
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The "first person" or "personal" point of view relates events as they are perceived by a single character. The main character "tell" the story and may offer opinions about the action and characters that differ from those of the author.
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Flashback
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A device used in literature to present action that occurred before the beginning of the story. Flashbacks are often introduced as the dreams or recollections of one or more characters.
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Fluency
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The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas; freedom from word-identification problems that might hinder comprehension in silent reading or the expression of ideas in oral reading.
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Focus
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The center of interest or attention.
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Folktales
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A story originating in oral tradition. Folktales fall into a variety of categories, including legends, ghost stories, fairy tales, fables and anecdotes based on historical figures and events.
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Foreshadowing
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A device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments.
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Free Verse
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Poetry that lacks regular metrical and rhyme patterns but that tries to capture the cadences of everyday speech.
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Generalization
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A conclusion, drawn from specific information, that is used to make a broad statement about a topic or person.
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Genre
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A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content (e.g. prose, poetry)
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Graphic Organizer
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A diagram or pictorial device that shows relationships.
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Headings, Graphics and Charts
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Any visual cues on a page of text that offer additional information to guide the reader's comprehension Headings typically are words or phrases in bold print that indicte a topic or the theme of a portion of text; graphics may be photographs, drawings, maps or any other pictorial representation; charts (and tables or graphs) condense data into a series of rows, lines or other shortened lists.
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Homophone
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One of two or more words prounced alike, but different in spelling or meaning (e.g. hair/hare)
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Hyperbole
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An exaggeration or overstatement (e.g.: I was so embarrassed I could have died.)
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Idiomatic Language
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An expression peculiar to itself grammatically or that cannot be understood if taken literally (e.g.: Let's gen on the ball.)
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Imagery
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A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses; sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell; figurative language.
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Implicit
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Meanings which, though unexpreesed in the literal text, may be understood by the reader, implied.
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Inference
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A judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances; understandings gained by "reading between the lines."
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Inflectional Ending
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A form, suffix or element added to the end of a word that changes the form of the word to mark such distinctions as those of case, gender, number, tense, person, mood or voice.
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Informational Text
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It is nonfiction, written primarily to convey factual information. It is the majority of printed material adults read (e.g., textbooks, newspapers, reports, directions, brochures, technical manuals, etc.)
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Irony
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The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposit of its literal or usual meaning; incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result.
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Legends
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A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events, or a story coming down from the past, especially one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable.
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Limerick
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A light or humorous verse form of five lines, of which lines 1,2, and 5 rhymes and lines 3 and 4 rhyme.
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Limited view:
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In literature, a speaker is speaking either in the first person, telling things from his or her own perspective, or in the third person, telling things from the perspective of an onlookder. If the speaker is unable to know what is in any character's mind but his or her own, this is called limited view.
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Literary Conflict
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The struggle that grows out of the interplay fo the two opposing forces in a plot.
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Literary Devices
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Tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to writing (e.g., dialogue, alliteration)
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Literary Elements
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The essential techniques used in literature (e.g., characterization, setting, plot, theme).
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Literary Nonfiction
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Text that includes literary elements and devices usually associated with fiction to reporn on actual persons, places or events. Examples include nature and travel writing, biography, memoir and the essay.
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Main Idea
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The main idea is the author's central though; the chief topic of a text expressed or implied in a word or phrase; the topic sentence of a paragraph
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech that expresses an idea through the image of another object using like or as
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Meter
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The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
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Mood
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The prevailing emotions of a work or of the author in his or her creation of the work. The mood of a work is not always what might be expected based on its subject matter.
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Mutliple-meaning Words
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Words that have several meanings depending upon how they are used in a sentence.
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Narrative
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Text which conveys a story or which relates events or dialogue; contrast with expository text.
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Nonfiction
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Prose wtrithing that is not fictional; designed primarily to explain argue, instruct, or describe rather than entertain. For the most part, its emphasis is factual.
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Omniscient
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The narrative perspective from which a literary work is presented to the reader from a "godlike" perspective. This allows the author to comment openly on characterrs and events in their work.
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Paraphrase
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Restate text or passage in other words, often to clarify meaning or show understanding.
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Passage
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A short piece of written work
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Personification
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An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form (e.g. Flowers danced about the lawn).
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Plot
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The structure of a story. The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. The structure often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the resolution. The plot may have a protagonist who is opposed by an antagonist, creating what is called a conflict.
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Point of View
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The way in which an author reveals characters, events and ideas in telling a story; the vantage point from which the story is told.
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Prefix
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Prefixes are groups of letters that can be placed before a word to alter its meaning.
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Problem/Solution
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An organizational structure in nonfiction texts, where the author typically presents a problem and possible solutions to it.
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Resolution
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The portion of a story following the climax, in which the conflict is resolved.
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Retell
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A child is asked to recount in her/his own words a story or article that has just been read.
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Rhyme
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Identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem.
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Rhythm
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The pattern or beat of a poem
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Rising Action
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The part of a story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated. Rising action leads up to the climax or turning point.
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Root Word
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A root word is one to which prefixes and suffixes can be added to form different words. The root word help, for example, can be built up into the derivatives helpful, unhelpful, helpless, helper and more.
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Satire
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A literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness.
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Setting
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The time and place in which a story unfolds
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Simile
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A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used (e.g., She eats like a bird).
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Suffix
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Suffixes are groups of letters placed after a word to modify its meaning or change it into a different word group from an adjective to an adverb, etc.
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Summarize
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To capture all the most important parts of the orignial text (paragraph, story, poem), but express them in a much shorter space, and -- as much as possible -- in the readers own words
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Symbolism
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A device in literature where an object represents an idea.
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Synonym
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One of two or more words in a language that have highly similar meanings (e.g., sorrow, grief, sadness
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Theme
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A topic of discussion or writing; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary word.
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Third Person
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A perspective in literature, the "third person" point of view presents the events of the story from outside of any single character's perception, much like the omniscient point of view, but the reader must understand the action as it takes place and without any special insight into characters' minds and motivations.
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Tone
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The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters (e.g. serious or humorous).
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Venn Diagrams
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The Venn diagram is made up of two or more overlapping circles. In language arts instruction, Venn Diagrams are useful for examining similarities and differences in characters, stories, poems, events, processes and major ideas between two texts, etc.
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Voice
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The fluency, rhythm and liveliness in writing that make it unique to the writer.
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