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| abstract words | words that name ideas that cannot be touched, heard, smelled, seen or tasted |
| adjective | a word that describes a noun |
| adverb | a word that describes a verb |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds |
| antagonist | the person who creates conflict for the main character |
| antonyms | words that are the opposite in meaning; example: high and low |
| characterization | the way a character looks, talks, acts or thinks |
| figurative language | descriptive language which is not meant to be taken literally; example: I'm all ears. |
| climax | the turning point of the story |
| concrete words | words that name things that can be touched, heard, smelled, seen or tasted |
| conflict | a fight or difference of opinion |
| Dewey Decimal System | a plan used by libraries to arrange books on the shelves |
| dialect | the local use of language |
| dialogue | the speech between characters in a story |
| encylopedia | a set of books that contains information on many subjects |
| episode | an event in a story that is part of the plot |
| essay | a short writing on one subject |
| fiction | a made up or imagined story |
| homonyms | words that sound the same, but are spelled differently |
| imagery | a picture a writer creates in the mind of the reader |
| main character | the person the story is mainly about |
| metaphor | a comparison that does not use the words like or as |
| moral | a lesson that a story teaches |
| motive | the reason behind a character's actions |
| myth | a story that tries to explain the meaning of life |
| narrator | a person who tells the story |
| nonfiction | a story that tells about real people and events |
| onomatopoeia | when words copy sounds of the things they name |
| personification | when human traits are given to non-human things |
| plot | an outline of the events in a story |
| point of view | the viewpoint from which the story is told |
| protagonist | the main character in the story |
| rhyme | the repetition of similar sounds |
| setting | where and when the story takes place |
| simile | a comparison that uses the words like or as |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| symbol | something used to represent something else |
| synonym | words that have the same meaning |
| theme | main idea of a story |
| time span | the time between the beginning and the end of a story |
