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| Characters | people or animals in a story or other writing |
| Alliteration | occurs when two or more words have the same beginning sound |
| Author's purpose | to entertain, inform, express opinions or to persuade |
| Ballad | Long poem that tells a story |
| conflict | the problem faced in the plot |
| dialogue | a conversation between characters in a story or play |
| fiction | form of literature that is made up |
| figure of speech | words or phrases that have meaning different from the literal meaning such as idioms, metaphors, and similes. |
| generalization | a statement about a whole group that is based on information about part of the group |
| genre | a category or type of writing |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| idiom | an expression that cannot be understood from the literal meaning of its words |
| inference | a guess or conclusion based on known facts and hints or evidence |
| irony | suggesting the opposite of the literal meaning of the words used |
| antagonist | a character who opposes the protagonist (main character). It can be a person, animal, a force of nature |
| author | the person who wrote the story or book |
| plot | the storyline |
| foreshadowing | the author uses hints or clues to suggest the outcomes of the story |
| flashback | the author shifts the time of the story to the past |
| main idea | the message the author is trying to get across to the reader |
| metaphor | compares two things but does not use like or as |
| personification | writer gives inanimate objects human qualities |
| protagonist | the main character in the story |
| theme | message the writer is trying to convey |
| tone | the manner in which the writer is presenting his/her story |
| point of view | how a story is narrated |
| setting | the time and place in which the story happens |
| simile | a comparision of two things using like or as |
