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| inference | an educated guess based on evidence in a text and what you already know |
| historical text | a text that includes facts about laws, social customs, and events from the past or current events |
| figurative language | a word or phrase that means something other than its dictionary definition such as a smile, an idiom a metaphor, or personification |
| effect | the result of cause |
| context clues | a word or phrase near an unknown word that can help the reader determine the words meaning |
| climax | the moment of greatest tension or suspense in a story |
| cite evidence | to point to examples in a text that support the central idea of an inference |
| cause | something that brings about an effect or a result |
| author's purpose | the main reason an author has for writing a text, most commonly to explain, express, inform, or persuade |
| analogy | a comparison that shows a relationshiop between two sets of things |
