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| a group of words that begin with the same sound |
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the author's reason for writing -
persuade, inform, entertain |
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| a judgement based on personal past experience |
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| the story of a person's life written by another person |
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| the moment in a story where everything changes |
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| telling how things are alike |
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| conversation between people in a story |
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| a newspaper or magazine article that gives opinions of the editors |
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| a statement that stretches the truth |
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| first person point of view |
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| point of view where the main character tells the story to share his/her own thoughts and feelings; uses the words I, me, my |
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| a statement that tells what a bunch of things have in common |
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| using details in the text and information in the reader's head to figure something out that the author didn't come straight out and say |
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| nonfiction text, a text written to share factual information |
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| ways an author or poets use words to help a reader visualize; similes, metaphors, etc. |
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| the author's most important point; using these two questions helps to narrow it down (Who or what is it about? What about that?) |
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| comparing two things without using "like" or "as" |
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| a word that can have many meanings |
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| informational text; a text that tells facts |
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| giving human feelings and actions to something that is not human |
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| a set of events that includes the exposition, conflict, rising exposition, climax, falling action, and resolution |
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| from whose view the story is told |
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| a group of letters at the beginning of a word to change its meaning |
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| the part of the story that comes after the climax, when the climax is resolved |
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| the part of the story after the conflict is introduced, but before the climax |
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| comparing two things by using "like" or "as" |
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| a group of letters that is placed at the end of the word that changes its meaning |
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| retelling the most important parts of a text in one's own words |
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| one word that has the same meaning as another word |
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| a major idea the author wants the reader to understand about life |
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| someone's own feeling or beliefs |
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| a group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph in a poem |
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| the person who is telling the poem |
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| how the author organized his/her writing: sequence, problem-solution, cause-effect |
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| a text written in order or a list, using signal words like first, second, next, after, finally, or dates |
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| compare/contrast text structure |
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| the author describes how things are the same and different; signal words include on the other hand, but, in contrast, similar, etc. |
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| a life story written by the person it is told about |
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| short stories with characters such as fairies, elves, and spirits |
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| stories that teach a moral |
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