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Academic Vocabulary 1

biography, autobiography, simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, prediction, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, compare, contrast, context clues, inference, main idea, cause/effect, sequence, fiction, nonfiction
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biographyA true story about someone’s life, written by someone other than that person.
autobiographyA true story about someone’s life, written by that person or written by the subject.
similea comparison of 2 things using the words like or as.
metaphora comparison of 2 things without using the words like or as.
personificationa description of an animal or an object as if it were human or had human qualities.
alliterationfigurative language where words in a sentence have the same beginning sound.
predictionWhen you try to figure out what will happen next, based on what has already happened.
onomatopoeiaWords that represent the sounds they denote.
hyperboleAn extreme exaggeration
compareWhen you identify how things are similar or alike
contrastWhen you identify how things are different.
context cluesUsing the other words in the sentence or in the paragraph to identify the meaning of an unknown word.
inferenceLogical guesses based on the author’s words and background knowledge.
main ideaThe most important idea of a passage
cause/effectWhen one thing causes another thing to happen. There is a reason somethinghappens and then a result.
sequenceWhen events are arranged in 1-2-3 or time order.
fictionWhen the author makes up the events in a story.
nonfictionA story or article that is true.


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