setting - where and when the story takes place, conflict - the problem in the story, main idea - what a piece of writing is mainly about, theme - the central idea or message of a work; the insight it offers into the overall message of the story, summary - to shorten and tell the beginning, middle, and end of a passage, chronological order - in the time order in which events happened, persuasive - used to convince the reader of the writer's point of view, myth - a fictional tale that explains of gods or the causes of natural phenomenaat, autobiography - the story of a person's life written by that person in first person point of view, point of view - the perspective from which a story is told, first person point of view - Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" and "We", 3rd person limited point of view - narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character, 3rd person omniscent point of view - told by an all-knowing narrator from outside the story who reveals what every character thinks and feels, alliteration - repetition of consonant SOUNDS at the beginning of words: MiMiss Maple made money Monday., personification - giving human qualities to non-human things, idiom - An expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the individual words: It's raining cats and dogs., simile - comparison using like or as: The car was as red as a tomato., foreshadow - the use of clues to hint events that will happen later in the plot, inference/infer - draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented, context clues - Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word., genre - a division or type of literature, dialogue - a conversation between two persons, captions - small text found near a picture that provides important information about the picture, moral - practical lesson about right and wrong,

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