| A | B |
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| memoir | an autobiobraphy - The story of a person's life, written by that person |
| metaphor | A comparison between two things that does not use the words "like" and "as" |
| monologue | A long speech by one character in a drama |
| mood | The feeling of the selection; the way the author wants the reader to feel |
| multiple-meaning word | A word that can have more than one meaning, such as "orange" |
| narrative | A story told in prose |
| narrator | The person telling the story |
| negative | Bad (used to describe feelings) |
| neutral | Not having any emotions about a topic, not negative or positive |
| newspaper | A publication usually printed every day that contains current news updates |
| nonfiction | Writing that is true, telling about real-life people, places, things, or ideas |
| opinion | A statement of the way a person feels about something; cannot be proven to be true for everybody |
| paraphrase | Re-stating an idea in your own words |
| personification | A comparison between a non-human and a human, giving a non-human human qualities |
| phrase | A group of words, not a complete sentence |
| play | A piece of written intended to be performed by actors, also called a drama |
| playwright | The author of a drama |
| plot | What happens in the story |
| poet | The author of a poem |
| poetry | A piece of writing that uses sounds and figurative language to express an imaginative thought |
| point of view | Who's telling the story (in fiction) OR The author's perspective on his or her topic (in nonfiction |
| positive | Good (used to describe feelings) |
| predict | Guess what will happen next |
| prediction | A guess about what will happen next |
| prefix | A group of letters added to the beginning of a word that change the word's meaning |
