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| Alliteration | Occurs when two or more words have the same beginning sound. |
| Author's purpose | Authors write for four main purposes: to entertain, to inform, to express their opinions, and to persuade. |
| Biography | Gives a factual account of someone's liife. |
| Autobiography | When the writer tells you of his or her own life. |
| Cause and effect | Sometimes an event or circumstance makes another event or circumstance happen. This first one is called the cause or reason for the second one. The second one is called the effect or result. |
| Characters | People or animals in a story or other writing |
| Chronological order | The telling of a group of events in the time order in which they happened |
| Comparison | Points out the ways in which two or more things are alike or similiar |
| Conclusions | A decision made after considering several pieces of information. The information may include facts from the reading and ideas that the reader already had. |
| Conflict | The problem the characters face in the plot. |
| Dialogue | A conversation between characters in a story or play |
| Fiction | A form of literature that tells stories about characters, settings, and events that the writer invents. |
| Figure of speech | Words or phrases that have meaning different from the literal meaning, such as idioms, metaphors, and similies. |
| Form | The structure or arrangement of elements in literature. |
| Generalization | A statement about a whole group that is made based on information about part of the group |
| Genre | A category or type of writing, such as fiction and nonfiction, biography, andventure, and science fiction. |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration. |
| Idiom | An expression that cannot be understood from the literal meaning of its words |
| Imagery | The author's use of description and words to create vivid pictures or images in the reader's mind |
| Inference | A guess or conclusion based on known facts and hints or evidence. |
| Irony | The use of tone, exaggeration, or understatement to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning of the words used. |
| Main Idea | The one idea that all the sentences in a paragraph tell about. |
| Metaphor | The comparison of two things without using the words "like" or "as" |
| Motive | A reason a character does something |
| Narrative poetry | Poetry that tells a story |
| Narrator | The teller of a story |
| Nonfiction | Writing that tells about real people, places, and events |
| Onomatopoeia | Words in which the sounds suggest the meaning of the words |
| Personification | The linking of a human quality or ability to an animal, object, or idea |
| Plot | Or storyline. The group of events that happen in order to solve the problem or conflict in the story |
| Poetry | An expression of ideas or feelings in words. Usually has form, rythm, and rhyme. |
| Point of view | Refers to how a story is narrated. |
| Rhyme | Two or more words that have the same ending sound. |
| Rhythm | A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables |
| Sequence | The order in which events occur or ideas are presented. |
| Setting | The time and place in which the story happens |
| Simile | A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" |
| Stanza | A group of related lines in a poem |
| Theme | The message about life or nature that the author wants the reader to get from the story, play, or poem |
| Topic sentence | A sentence, often at the beginning of a paragraph, that presents the main idea, theme, mood, or summary |
| Tone | Writter's attitude toward his or her subject. Uses words such as angry, sad, humorous. |
| Mood | A feeling that a literary work conveys to readers. |
