anecdote - a short account of an incident in someone's life, summarize - give the beginning, middle, & end ideas of the passage, inference - a conclusion based on prior knowledge and information gained in your reading, author's purpose - the reason the author writes: persuade, inform, entertain (PIE), tone - how the author feels (excited, silly, serious), mood - how the text makes the reader feel, stanza - a group of lines in a poem that look like a paragraph, evidence - text that comes from the story used to support your answer, figurative language - words that may not literally mean what they say; ALL uses of language that imply an imaginative comparison, simile - when you use words "like" or "as" to compare ideas, metaphor - when you compare ideas without using the words "like" or "as", significance - a part of the story that is important, alliteration - repetition of a single consonant letter such as Dunkin Donuts, onomatopoeia - sound words that refer to the thing it is describing; sizzling, boom, pop, personification - speaking of something that is not human as if it had human abilities and reactions, hyperbole - great exaggeration used to emphasize a point, idiom - words whose meaning is different from the ordinary meaning of the words, analogy - relationship between words: synonyms, antonym, etc; bucket is to water as shovel is to sand, textual evidence - text that the author presents as argument, explicit - stated clearly and in detail,

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