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| Adventure | Agenre offiction in which anadventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, forms the main storyline. |
| Accuracy | The ability to do a skill correctly, without mistakes. |
| Audience | The readers who will interact |
| Antonym | A word that means the opposite of another word. |
| Adage | A short saying that is accepted as often true. “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.” |
| Analyze | Breaking down a text into parts to examine. |
| Alliteration | The same letter or sounds at the beginning of closely connected words. |
| Character Traits | The thoughts, words, and actions of the character that lead to his/her personality. |
| Collaborate | To work together,cooperatively, to create something. |
| Compare | To look for fimilarities and differences. |
| Context Clues | Nearby words and phrases in the text that help suggest the meaning of an unknown word. |
| Concluding Statement | The ending of a text, wraps up or restates the idea of the text. |
| Claim | To state or assert something is the case without evidence or proof. |
| Central Idea | The central unifying element of the story, tying together all of the other elements. |
| Concrete Details | The specific details that are found in the middle of hte body paragraphs-facts, data, information that describes, explains or justifies. |
| Drama | A text (play) intended to portray life or a character and to tell a story involving a conflict and emotions. |
| Event | Something important that happens in a story, at a certain place and time. |
| Explicit | Stated clearly and in detail, nleaving no room for confusion or doubt. |
| Expression | The use of intonation or tone to create feeling, spirit, or character. |
| Folktale | An anonymous, timeless and placeless tale circulated orally among a people. |
| Fantasy | Imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque or extraordinary characters. |
| First PersonNarrative | A perspective where a story is told by one character, speaking for and about himself/herself. |
| Figurative Language | Language that contains figures of speech and departs form literal meaning: adages, similies, metaphors, etc. |
| Heading | A title of a page, chapter, or section of a text. |
| Hyperbole | Obvious and intentional exaggeration |
| Interjection | A word that expresses emotion, exclamation. Hey! Oh! Ouch! |
| Idiom | An expression that cannot be understood from the individual word meanings but must be inferred as a whole expression. |
| Inference | A conclusion or opinion that draws on known facts, evidence, or intuition to fill in missing information. |
| Key Details | Pieces of information that are essential to the plot of the story or to informational text. |
| Multiple Meaning Words | Words that have different meansings but are spelled the same.They can sound alike or different. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares two unlike things, that actually have something in common. |
| Mood | The feeling, atitude or distinct atmosphere of the text. |
| Myth | A story based on tradition or legend that explains why the world is as it is and why things happen as they do. |
| Non-literal | When a phrase means something other than the exact words in it-used to compare or exaggerate. |
| Prepositional Phrase | Phrases that give more information about nouns and verbs-begin with a preposition. through above in around |
| Prose | Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without the rhythm of structure of poetry. |
