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| Text | A factual book used in school; writing |
| Epic | A long narrative story or poem about a hero |
| Inference | A conclusion made from reasoning or inferring |
| Protagonist | The hero of a story - main character |
| Caution | To be careful, to warn |
| Retell | To say it again |
| Literacy | The ability to read and write |
| Statement | An information sentence |
| Title | The name of a story or piece of writing |
| Fantasy | A type of writing that is fictional and usually mythological |
| Alliteration | Repeating sounds by using words whose beginning sounds are the same |
| Analogy | A comparison between two otherwise different objects that share some of the same characteristics |
| Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event in someone's life |
| Autobiography | The story of a person's life, written by that person |
| Biographical essay | An essay about true events in a person's life |
| Biography | The story of a person's life, written by someone other than the person |
| Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Caricature | A character description that is exaggerated to make people laugh |
| Climax | The high point of interest or suspense in a story or play |
| Comedy | A play with a happy ending, intended to amuse its audience |
| Connotation | Immages or emotions connected to a word |
| Denouement | The resolution to a story |
| Dialect | The speech of a partiular region of a country, or of a certain group of people |
| Diary | A daily record of events and feelings |
| Epilogue | A section coming after the story's end |
| Epiphany | The moment in a story when a character recognizes an important truth |
| Essay | A short non-fictional work on any subject |
| Exaggeration | In literature, making someting larger than it is; stretching the truth |
| Excerpt | A short passage from a longer piece of writing |
| Figurative language | Language that uses word pictures to compare or describe, and that is not meant to be taken literally |
| First-person | A point of view where the narrator is also a character, using the pronouns "I" and "we" |
| Flashback | A look into the past at some point at some point in a story |
| Flat character | A character that is based on a single trait or quality and is not well developed |
| Folklore | Stories, customs, and traditions preserved and passed along by people in a particular area or group |
| Foreshadowing | Clues or hints that a writer gives about something that has not yet happened |
| Genre | A kind of literature |
| Hero | The leading character in a story, novel, play, or film |
| Humorist | A writer of writing intended to amuse |
| Hyperbole | Using exaggeration to show that something is important |
| Image | A picture in the reader's mind created by words |
| Imagery | The use of word pictures that appeal to the five senses |
| Irony | the difference between what is expected to happen in a story and what does happen |
| Journal | Writing that expresses an author's feelings or first impressions about a subject |
| Legend | A story from folklore that features characters who actually lived, or real events or places |
| Limerick | A five-line poem in which the first, second and fifth lines, and the third and fourth lines, rhyme |
| Metaphor | A fugure of speech that says one this IS another |
| Monologue | A speech by one person |
| Moral | A lesson or message about life told in a story |
| Myth | An important story, often part of a culture's religion, that explains how the world came to be or why natural events happen, usually including gods, goddesses, or unusually powerful human beings |
| Onomatopoeia | Using words that sound like their meaning |
