| A | B |
| Action Verb | shows action something u do |
| Adjective | describes a noun |
| Adverb | describes a verb, adj, or adv |
| affix | added to base prefix or suffix |
| alliteration | repetition of the first sound |
| almanac | facts and statistics about sub |
| analogy | relationship between two things |
| antecedent | noun that pronoun refers to |
| apostrophe ' | shows poss. ;replaces letters |
| audience | group of listeners or readers |
| author's purpose | reason for writing |
| autobiography | written by self; I, Me, My |
| bandwagon | Everybody's doing it, so should you |
| biography (he, she, they) | persons life written by another |
| bold face words | key words,dark type,emphasis |
| bulleted list | imp words preceded by dot |
| caption | words to desc. graphic |
| cause | action to make some.happen |
| effect | result of cause |
| character | a person or animal |
| chart | table,column&rows,show info |
| chronological order | time order |
| colon | intro list, after greeting busin |
| comma | item series, dialogue,apposit |
| compound sentence | 2 ind. clauses link cood conj |
| concluding sentence | sums up,paragraph main idea |