Narrative poem - Tells a story and includes main elements of a story (character, setting, conflict and plot), Objective Summary - Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering or representing facts, Opinion - A person’s judgement, thoughts, beliefs. May be supported by factual evidence but can’t be proven, Paraphrase - To restate something in your own words, Personification - Giving human qualities to something nonhuman, Point of View - Opinion, perspective, position, viewpoint, Sequence - The following of one thing after another, Setting - The time and location of the events described in a literary work, Simile - A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as, Stage Directions - Instructions for actors on and off stage, Stanza - A group of lines in a poem, Suffix - Word part added to the end of a root or base word, Summarize - To rewrite the story including only to most important details, Summary - Shorter version of a text/ restatement of the essential ideas of major points in a text, Support - To help or hold up, Symbol - Is anything that stands for or represents something else, Text - Written or printed work, Text Features - Pictures, graphs, hyper-link, side bar, table of contents, headings, words in dark print, Textual Evidence - Specific support found in a text, Tone - The attitude of an author toward the subject, Transitions - Words that smoothly connect two topics or sections to each other, Visualize - To picture the people, places and or action that an author describes in text to enhance comprehension,

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