| A | B |
|---|
| author's purpose | why the story was written |
| chronological order | sequence of events |
| command | to give orders |
| composition | a short essay |
| different | unlike |
| exclamation | a sudden forceful utterance |
| expository text | a piece of writing that explains |
| fantasy | something imagined |
| fluency | speaking easily and smoothly |
| folk tale | a story made up and handed down by common people |
| glossary | list of hard or unusual words found in a book |
| homophone | words pronounced alike but have different meanings |
| index | alphabetical list in a printed work that gives words and page number found |
| letter | written or printed communication |
| narrative writing | series of sentences telling a story |
| narrator | person telling the story |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words those sound suggest the feeling |
| point of view | a way of looking at or thinking about something |
| prior knowledge | knew before |
| question | something asked |
| speaker | person who is talking |
| statement | idea expressed in words |
| theme | subject for a work of literature |
| topic sentence | sentence that states the main thought of a paragraph |
