| A | B |
|---|
| sparks | small bits of light or fire |
| sputter | a spitting or popping noise, like a car running out of gas |
| register | to remember something because it impressed you, also to sign up |
| fluffy | soft and light, like a cotton ball or a pillow |
| painstaking | a job or a decision requiring great care and effort |
| twig | a very small branch |
| pitiful | worth feeling sorry for, deserving of pity |
| shred | to tear or cut into small pieces |
| wad | a ball of paper or another material that can be pressed into a round |
| thread | . very thin string, you put this through the eye of a needle to sew |
| compound words | birch + bark = birchbark |
| combustion | to start on fire |
| fuel | gas, wood, propane |
| oxygen | O |
| heat | to make something hot |
| extinguish | put out (like a fire) |
| figurative language | symbolic language |
| simile | comparing 2 unlike things with "as" or "like" |
| cause and effect | a relationship between 2 events, one makes the other one happen |
| exasperated | completely frustrated |
| setting | where and when a story takes place |
| characters | people (or animals) in the story |
| plot | events in a story, what happens first, next, finally |
| genre | a type of literature- fiction, non-fiction, mystery, biography |
| fiction | a story, people and events are invented |
| non-fiction | how-to books, a textbook |
| conflict | a problem, a fight or struggle |
| excerpt | a short piece taken from a larger book |
| prologue | often comes before an excerpt - what happened in the book before the excerpt |
| realistic adventure fiction | an invented story that almost seems real |
