Reading Vocabulary

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alliteration

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a repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of words

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allusion

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a reference to a famous person. place. event. of work of literature

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antagonist

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the bad guy; the force working against the protagonist

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author's purpose

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the authors reason for creating a particular work; to entertain to inform, to persuade, to give an opinion

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autobiography

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nonfiction in which a person tells the story of his or her own life

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biography

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the story of a person's life written by someone else

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cause

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hwy an event happens

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effect

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what happens(follows the cause)

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charcter

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person, animal, or imaginary creature that a story is about

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major character

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a character the story is mainly about

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minor charcater

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a less important charcter

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characterization

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a less important character

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chronlogical order

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all the techniques writers use to create and develop characters

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climax

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in the plot of the story the turning point or the most exciting part

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conflict

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struggle between opposing forces

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external conflict

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a character struggles against another character or an outside force

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internal conflict

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struggle within a character

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contrast

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pointing out differences between things

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dialect

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a form of language that is sponken in a certain place or by a certain group of people

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dialogue

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the words that charscters speak aloud

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drawing conclusions

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combining serval pieces of information to make an inference

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fable

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a brief story that teaches a lesson

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fantasy

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a story that takes place in an unreal imaginary world. they often involve magic or characters with superhuman powers

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fiction

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imaginative not true

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flashback

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an interruption of the action to present a scene that took place at an earlier time

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foreshadowind

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a writer provides a hint that suggests furture events in a story

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free verse

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peotry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm

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hyperbole

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exaggeration or overstatement

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idiom

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an expression that has a meaning of its endividual words

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imagery

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words and phrases that appeal to readers senses

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inference

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logical guess or conclusion based on evidence

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irony

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a contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens

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metaphor

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a comparison of twp things that have some quality in common

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mood

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is a feeling that a literary work conveys to readers atmosphere

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narritive poetry

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poetry that tell a story

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nonfiction

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writing that tells about real people places and events

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onomatopia

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the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning

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parrallelism

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the use of similar grammatical

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personification

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the giving of human quitites to an animal object or idea

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plot

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the sequence of events that make up the story

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exposition

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introduces the characters and establishes the main idea

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tone

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the writers attitude toward his subject

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theme

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the message about life that is conveyed by a story

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symbol

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a person place or object that stands for something else