| A | B |
|---|
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| context clues | determining the meaning of a word by other words |
| double negative | i wasen't doing nothing |
| prefix | "dis" or "re" |
| prediction | a guess about what might happen next in a story |
| inference | a conclusion |
| generalization | makes a statement that applies to a whole group of people or things |
| characters | the people, animals, or things in a story, play, or poem |
| point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told |
| fact and opinion | what is factual information and what someone thinks |
| dialogue | conversation between characters |
| foreshadow | a hint or clue the quthor gives about some future event |
| antonym | word of opposite meaning |
| synonym | word meaning the same as another word |
| setting | place where the story or play occurs |
| theme | the lesson or moral the story tries to teach |
| comparison | to show similarities |
| contrast | to show differences |
| jargon | specialized words relating to certain activities or people |
| girl in woods | Sylvia |
| a bitter fued | the interlopers |
| priest | John |
| grandmother | Mrs. Tilley |
| simple predicate | have taken |
| complete subject | all the words in a sentence from the beginning to the verb |
| simile | a comparison between two things using "like" or "as" |
| helping verb | same as an auxilliary verb |
| prepositional phrase | over the river |
| action verb | work |
