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| atlas | a collection of maps, usually in book form |
| bias | to cause favoritism, usually unfairly |
| biography | a written account of another person's life |
| effect | a mental or emotional impression produced |
| fantasy | an imaginative or fanciful work |
| nonfiction | writing dealing with facts and events rather than imaginative narration |
| opinion | a belief or judgment that falls short of absolute proof |
| root word | the form of a word after all affixes are removed |
| suffix | a letter or a group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning. |
| tall tale | an exaggerated, unreliable story |
| antonym | a word opposite in meaning to another. |
| cause and effect | a relationship between actions such that one or more are the result of the other |
| classify | to arrange or order by category |
| conclusion | the last main part of an essay, usually containing a summing up of the points |
| conflict | to fight or contend; do battle. |
| historical fiction | a novel set among actual events or a specific period of history |
| point of view | the position of the narrator in relation to the story |
| Predict | to foretell the future; make a prediction |
| summarize | to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form |
| theme | A central idea in a piece of writing or other work of art |
| thesaurus | a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms |
| topic sentence | a sentence that expresses the essential idea of a paragraph |
| Venn diagram | a diagram that uses circles to represent sets and their relationships |
| analogy | A comparison of two different things that are alike in some way |
| climax | a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot |
| compare and contrast | a written exercise about the similarities and differences between two or more people, places, or things |
| fact | a truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true |
| figure of speech | an expression of language, such as simile, metaphor, or personification, by which the usual or literal meaning of a word is not employed |
| guide words | word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page |
| inference | any process of reasoning from premises to a conclusion |
| memoir | a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation |
| narrator | to give an account or tell the story |
| persuade | to cause to believe; convince |
| resolution | a solution, accommodation, or settling of a conflict |
| rising action | a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest |
| stanza | a fixed number of verse lines arranged in a definite metrical pattern, forming a unit of a poem |
| synonym | a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language |
