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| Alliteration | A repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words |
| Allusion | an implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place or event |
| Antonym | A word that is the opposite of another word |
| Author's purpose | the author's intent to inform, entertain, persuade or convince |
| Autobiography | The story of a person's life written byhimself or herself |
| Bias | A judgment based on a personal point of view |
| Biography | The story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work |
| cause and effect | cause statements stem from actions and events and effects happen as a result of the action |
| Characterization | The method an author uses to reveal characters |
| Climax | the turnin point in a narrative |
| compound word | a word composed of 2 or more small words |
| conclusion | The ending of the sotry |
| Conflict or Problem | A struggle or clash between opposing characters forces or emotions |
| context clues | information from the reading that identifies a word or group of words |
| contrast | to compare or appraise differences |
| editorials | a newspaper or magazine article that gives the opinions of the editors or publishers; expression of opinion |
| fiction | a story that is the product of imagination |
| first person | point of view relates events as ther are perceived by a SINGLE CHARACTER the main character "tells" the story |
| foreshadowing | a device used in literature to create expectation |
| generalization | a conclusion, drawn from specific information, that is used to make a broad statement about a topic or person |
