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| alliteration | repeating consonants in poetry or other writing |
| connection | an association in the mind such as text or self, text to text, text to self, and text to world |
| introduction | a short section at the beginning of a written work that prepares the reader for the rest of the book |
| setting | the place and time of a written work |
| plot | the main story of a written work |
| context clues | hints and words around and unknown word that tell the meaning of the unknown word |
| conflict | a clash of opposing ideas, interest, etc. ex: man vs. man, man vs. himself, man vs. nature, man vs. God or gods |
| author's purpose | (PIE) persuade, inform and entertain- why an author wrote the work |
| theme | the subject of topic of a piece of writing |
| problem | a question or situation that is difficult for the main character |
| inference | to arrive at a conclusion using events or information from the story |
| climax | in a point in the story marked by greatest intensity, usually near the end |
| foreshadowing | when the author gives you a hint about an event that will happen later on |
| metaphor | a figure of speech where something is names as something quite different to show a likeness ex) Tracy is a tree- (she is tall) |
| solution | the answer to a problem |
| prediction | the making a education guess using any information, pictures, or prior knowledge that you have |
| simile | a figure of speech where two different things are compared using like, as or than ex) He is quick as a rabbit. |
| personification | giving non-human things human abilities |
