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Reading And Writing Vocab
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1. A category used to classify literary works: drama - historical fiction - fantasy - mystery - realistic fiction - etc.
Alliteration
Genre
Context Clues
Resolution
2. The story of a person's life written by someone else
Conventions
Generalization
Biography
Stanza
3. Identical or very recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of the lines
Biography
Setting
Rhyme
Main Idea
4. The components of a narrative story: setting - characters and plot (problem and solution)
Alliteration
Poetry
Story Elements
Context Clues
5. One of the five domains of writing: staying on topic
Context Clues
Conventions
Focus
Plot
6. What someone thinks or feels and can be argued
Paraphrase
Opinion
Biography
Fact
7. The result; happens second
Effect
Opinion
Fact
Bias
8. The story is relayed by a narrator who is also a character in the story; uses 'I' throughout the story
First Person Point of View
Contrast
Informational Writing
Author's Purpose
9. How the author thinks or feels about a particular topic
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10. The author's central thought; the overall idea in a paragraph or passage
Persuasive Writing
Main Idea
Bias
Focus
11. One of the five domains of writing; transition words - paper has a flow to it; beginning - middle - and end; sequencing
Simile
Excerpt
Stanza
Organization
12. The similarities
Cause
Jargon
Compare
Bias
13. The effects of rhythm; the use of meter - imagery; examples: haiku - cinquain - etc.
Poetry
Content
Resolution
Homophone/Homonym
14. Personalities of a character: honest - determined - loyal - etc.
Character Traits
Onomatopoeia
Paraphrase
Primary Sources
15. One of the five domains of writing: adding figurative language - buzz words - sentence variety and your voice into your writing
Simile
Cause
Style
Summarize
16. A phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say
Idiom
Persuasive Writing
Organization
Contrast
17. Sound effect words
Story Elements
Biography
Onomatopoeia
Synonym
18. A comparison of two things without like or as
Biography
Stanza
Metaphor
Summarize
19. Text or first-hand account of an event; example: interview
Biography
Idiom
Effect
Primary Sources
20. Story that is true; a product of factual information
Rhyme
Text Organization
Third Person Point of View
Nonfiction
21. Having a similar meaning to the word
Synonym
Author's Viewpoint
Persuasive Writing
Foreshadowing
22. A verse of a poem
Primary Sources
Plot
Autobiography
Stanza
23. Words pronounced the same but have a different meaning and spelling
Homophone/Homonym
Biography
Third Person Point of View
Focus
24. Having an opposite meaning to the word
Fact
Antonym
Text Organization
Contrast
25. Sources which are taken from an original work; example: books
Foreshadowing
Synonym
Jargon
Secondary Sources
26. The authors hints or clues about what is going to happen in the story
Organization
Main Idea
Simile
Foreshadowing
27. Each character in the story is referred by the narrator as 'he' or 'she'
Third Person Point of View
Dialogue
Focus
Author's Purpose
28. How the author organizes the information in the story: by main ideas and details - by sequence of events - or by cause and effect - etc.
Generalization
Author's Viewpoint
Effect
Text Organization
29. One of the five domains of writing: detailed examples - sophisticated sentences; etc.
Compare
Poetry
Content
Plot
30. A tendency to favor one side; a prejudice
Stanza
Bias
Fact
Hyperbole
31. The solution in the story
Resolution
Nonfiction
Persuasive Writing
Context Clues
32. A writing piece where the writer is trying to convince or persuade the reader to agree with him or her
Cause
Persuasive Writing
Content
Narrative Writing
33. Using surrounding words or phrases to help you understand the meaning of a word
Homophone/Homonym
Content
Context Clues
Text Organization
34. One of the five domains; capitalization - punctuation - complete sentences - spelling - etc.
Conventions
Persuasive Writing
Idiom
Context Clues
35. The turning point in a story
Idiom
Rhyme
Climax
Synonym
36. A judgment based on reasoning rather than a direct or explicit statement
Inference
Alliteration
Summarize
Hyperbole
37. A story that is not true; a product of imagination
Fiction
Flashback
Stanza
Alliteration
38. The differences
Homophone/Homonym
Setting
Primary Sources
Contrast
39. The action or event - happens first
Cause
Foreshadowing
Secondary Sources
Bias
40. The structure of a story; includes the problem and solution
Genre
Character Traits
Plot
Inference
41. An exaggeration or overstatement
Synonym
Hyperbole
Focus
Author's Viewpoint
42. To restate the information in your own words
Compare
Paraphrase
Opinion
Autobiography
43. Stating in your own words the important things you have read
Homophone/Homonym
Secondary Sources
Summarize
Rhyme
44. The author's intent: to persuade - to entertain - to inform or teach
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45. Technical language of a particular group
Metaphor
Effect
Conventions
Jargon
46. Time and place in which a story unfolds
Rhyme
Idiom
Setting
Cause
47. The introduction of a past event into a story
Flashback
Nonfiction
Genre
Homophone/Homonym
48. A writing piece that tells a story that has a beginning - middle - and end; has characters - setting - problem & solution
Author's Viewpoint
Synonym
Story Elements
Narrative Writing
49. A repetition of beginning sounds of two or more words
Onomatopoeia
Third Person Point of View
Alliteration
Story Elements
50. A comparison of two things using like or as
Fact
Compare
Focus
Simile