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| narrative | fiction text that tells a story with characters |
| setting | time and place of the story |
| theme | a message about life or human nature that the write shares with the reader |
| conflict | the problem in the story |
| climax | comes when the action, conflict, and tension reach a critical point |
| resolution | ending or outcome of the story;a problem may be solved |
| context clues | Use the words, phrases, and sentences around a word to figure out its meaning |
| author's purpose: expository text | to inform the reader |
| author's purpose: narrative text | to entertain the reader |
| synonyms | words that have the same meaning |
| expository text | text that informs; information that's true. |
| sequence/series of steps | text structure that gives information in order |
| comparison and contrast | a text structure that shows how two or more things are alike or different |
| cause/effect | text structure that connects what happened with why it happened |
| fact | something that can be proven true or false |
| opinion | a personal belief or judgement/ what someone thinks or feels |
| propaganda | writing that attempts to persuade the readers to accept a point of view |
| prefixes | a word or syllable placed in front of a word to add to or change its meaning |
| suffixes | letter or letters added to the end of a word to make another word |
| root word | the basic part of the word that usually carries the main component of meaning |
