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| Analogy | Likeness in some ways between things that are otherwise unlike |
| Autobiography | A story of a person's life written by that person |
| Bandwagon | To join what appears to be a winning or successful group or movement |
| BIas | The tendency to favor one side too much; prejudice (An umpire should have no bias) |
| Bibliography | A list of books or articles by a certain author or about a particular subject or person |
| cause | A person, thing or event that makes something happen |
| Effect | Whatever is produced by the cause; result;something made to happen by a person or thing. |
| character | A person or animal in a play, poem, short story or book |
| Character Traits | Distinguishing characteristics or features of people or animals in a story |
| Climax | The highest point of action or interest in a short story or book |
| compare | To find out or point out how persons or things are alike |
| contrast | To find out or point out how persons or things are different |
| Comprehension | The act or power or understanding |
| Conclusion | The final act; end. Summing up all the important facts |
| conflict | Active opposition of persons or ideas within a short story or book |
| context clue words | The words directly before and/or after a word or sentence that give clues to its meaning |
| context clue | The words directly before and after the word you are trying to define |
| Crisis/ Turning Moment | An important or deciding event in a story at which a change must happen either for better or worse |
| Description | A telling in words how a person, place, thing or an event looks or behaves |
| Example | Words or phrases used to show what a person, place, thing or event looks like |
