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| Imagery | A movie you see in your head as you read. |
| Character profile | The way a writer makes a character come alive. |
| Footnotes | Definitions of difficult words placed at the bottom of the page. |
| Context clues | Surrounding words that explain the meaning of a word. |
| Glossary | Defines words and is found at the end of the book. |
| Fantasy | A story that could not happen in real life. |
| Antonym | Words that mean the opposite. |
| Homophone | Words that sound the same but have different meanings |
| Synonym | Words that mean the same |
| Foreshadowing | Use of clues to suggest something is going to happen in the future |
| Sequence of events | Order in which events happen in a story |
| Time order | Another way of saying sequence of events |
| Dialect | A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular group of people |
| Allusion | A reference to something that is well-known |
| AR | Accelerated Reader |
| SSR | Sustained Silent Reading |
| Realistic details | Details that can be found in the real world |
| Fantastic details | Details that cannot be found in the real world |
| Genre | A type of literature |
| Biography | An account of a real person's life told by another person |
| Autobiography | A story about the writer's own life |
| Character | A person or an animal in a story |
| Conflict | A struggle between opposing characters or forces |
| Abolitionist | Those who worked to end slavery |
| Character traits | Distinguishing qualities found in one's personality |
| Factual sources | A source that can prove that a fact is true |
| Nonfiction | A writing that is based on fact |
| Suffix | A word part that is added to the end of a word |
| Fact | A piece of information that is known to be true |
| Opinion | A personal belief that cannot be proved right or wrong |
| Inferences | A conclusion drawn from the information you have been given |
| Similes | A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" |
| Prediction | To make guesses at how the conflict will end |
| Summary | Bried description of a reading selection |
| Story map | A "map" of a story to show its main elements. |
| Setting | The time and place of a story or play |
| Resolution | The answer or solution to a problem |
| Plot | The chain of related events in a play or story |
| Author, setting, characters, main events, conflict, resolution | Main elements of a story map |
| Compare | To tell how 2 or more things are "alike" |
| Contrast | To tell how 2 or more things are "different" |
| Quest | A journey taken in search for something of "great value." |
| Quest stories | Some of the oldest stories all over the world and have excellent storytelling power. |
| Goal, perilous journey, reward | Three elements of a "Quest Story" |
| Conclusion | What you have figured out based on what you have learned from the story |
| Main idea | The main thought or "message" and its supporting details in a reading selection |
| Suspense | The uncertainty or anxiety we feel about what will happen next in a story |
| Fairy tale | fantasy set in the past and includes magic and magical deeds |
| Spoof | To write a story that "pokes" fun and exaggerates the setting, plot, and characters, and language. |
| Satire | A literary work that has wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose vice or folly. |
| Parody | It imitates an already existing formula, while exaggerating it for humor. |
| Irony | A contrast between what appears to be true and what is really true, or a contrast between expectation and reality. |
| Exaggerate | To heap up, to enlarge beyond normal. |
| Anachronism | The error of placing a person or thing in the wrong period |
| Point of view | The vantage point from which a story is told. |
| Analyzing visuals | To view the illustrations in order to help the understanding of the text |
| Third-person point of view | The narrator is not a character in the story but is observing from the outside |
| Cause and effect | When one event becomes the cause of another |
| External conflict | the struggle between a character and an outside force |
| Internal conflict | the struggle in a character's own mind |
| Characterization | the way a writer helps readers get to know the characters in a story |
| Visualize | To create a mental picture of what happens in a story |
| Exposition, rising action, climax, falling acttion, resolution | the five stages of plot |
| Exposition | introduces setting and characters, hints at conflict in the plot |
| Rising action | builds suspense in the plot |
| Climax | most exciting part; turning point of the story of the plot |
| Falling action | eases tension shows how conflict is resolved in the plot |
| Resolution | reveals how everything will turn out in the plot |
| First-person point of view | When the narrator is in the story; uses "I" |
| Third-person point of view | When the narrator is not in the story; uses "he", "she", "they", ect. |
| Topic | one or two words that sum up what a story is about |
| Theme | a message about life or human nature that a writer wants readers to understand about the topic of the story |
