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| Conventions of Language | Mechanics, usage and sentence completeness. |
| Descriptive Text | Writing that is intended to allow a reader to picture the scene or setting in which the action of a story takes place. |
| Dialogue | Conversation between people in a literary work; in its most restricted sense, it refers specifically to the speech of characters in a drama. |
| Differentiate | Distinguish, tell apart and recognize differences between two or more items. |
| Editorials | A newspaper or magazine article that gives the opinions of the editors or publishers; an expression of opinion that resembles such an article. |
| Epic | A long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero of great historic or legendary importance. |
| Evaluate | To examine and to judge carefully. |
| Exaggeration | To make an overstatement or to stretch the truth |
| Explanatory Sentence | A sentence that explains something (i.e. passage, paragraph, word) |
| Explicit | Referring to specific text that is included in the reading passage or in the directions. |
| Expository Text | Text written to explain and convey information about a specific topic. |
| Fable | Narrative intended to convey a moral. Animals or inanimate objects with human characteristics often serve as characters |
| Fairy Tale | Short narratives featuring mythical beings such as fairies, elves and sprites. These tales originally belonged to the folklore of a particular nation or region |
| Fallacies of Logic | Used to influence people to believe, buy, or do something. |
| Fiction | Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact. |
| Figurative Language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |
| First Person | This point of view relates events as they are perceived by a single character. The main character "tells" the story and may offer opinions about the action and characters that differ from those of the author. |
| Flashback | A device used in literature to present action that occurred before the beginning of the story. |
| Fluency | The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas; freedom from word-identification problems that might hinder comprehension in silent reading or the expression of ideas in oral reading |
| Focus | The center of interest or attention. |
