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| synonyms | words that mean the same thing |
| antonyms | words that are opposites |
| short story | a brief piece of fictional or made-up writing about people and events |
| inferring | using your knowledge and "clues" to make a good guess |
| connecting | finding the links between one thing and another |
| activating prior knowledge | using what you already know to help you understand new things |
| reviewing | looking back over something you've already read to understand it better |
| previewing | looking over a selection before you read |
| diagram | a drawing that shows the parts of a machine or other device |
| cutaway diagram | shows what happens behind a part of the device, as though that part had been cut away |
| lead | first paragraph of a newspaper or magazine article; gets you interested in the story so you will want to read more |
| head | the title of an article |
| deck | an artcle's subtitle |
| subhead | this comes before each section of an article |
| photographs | give a lot of information at a glance |
| caption | the words printed above, beside, or below a caption, which gives information about the photo |
| conflict | the struggle between two opposing forces |
| external conflicts | when characters have problems with something outside of themselves. |
| internal conflicts | when characters struggle against something inside of themselves. |
| dialogue | conversation between characters in a story |
| character | a person in a story |
| plot | a series of related events in which a problem is explored and then solved |
| sensory details | these help you understand physical and emotional feelings by describing how things look, sound, feel, smell, or taste |
| setting | when and where the action occurs |
| point of view | the narrator's relationship to the story |
| first-person point of view | the narrator tells a story about himself/herself and refers to himself/herself as "I" |
| third-person point of view | the narrator tells a story and refers to the characters as "he," "she," or "they" |
| narrator | the person who tells a story |
| narrator of autobiography | tells a story about himself/herself |
| narrator of biography | tells a story about someone else |
| theme | main idea; the author's message to the reader |
