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