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| affix | Prefix and suffix |
| alliteration | Repeating the first sound in a word |
| antonym | A word that means the opposite of another word |
| author's purpose | why the author wrote the text |
| character | person or thing that does the action in the story |
| conclusion | ending or resolution |
| differences | What two or more things do not have in common |
| draw conclusions | use information from what you know and form an opinion or guess an outcome for the story |
| essential information | important or necessary information in a story |
| exaggeration | stretch the truth |
| fact | something that can be proven to be true |
| first person | use of I, me, we, us when telling a story |
| generalization | read and then sum up - form a "big idea" |
| genre | type of writing:poetry, novel, mystery, historical account, biography |
| inference | read between the lines, conclusion drawn from the facts in the story |
| main idea | What the whole story is about |
| metaphor | comparison without using like or as |
| narrator | the person telling the story |
| nonessential information | extra details not necessary to the story |
| opinion | a person's thought about an idea |
| organized - arranged | the way text is put together - |
| passage | refers to the story or paragraph the question is on |
| personification | Giving a non-living thing characteristics of a person |
| plot | the story events in a logical order |
| point of view | How the story is told, first, second or third person |
| setting | where the story takes place |
| similarity | two or more things that have something in common |
| simile | compare two things using like or as |
| summarize | briefly retell the main events or ideas from a story |
| supporting details | information that proves your answer is correct; facts from the story |
| synonym | words that have the same or nearly the same meaning |
| Theme | The message the author is giving the reader |
| third person | he, she, it, them - not me or you |
