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Alliteration

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3 or more words starting with a similar sound

Ex: Little Larry likes to like the sticky lollipop

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Antagonist

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Main bad character of a story

Ex: Voldemort

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Analogy

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An extended metaphor or simile, often comparing something unfamiliar with something familiar or 2 things that are mostly no alike

“Life is like a 5 mini surprise ball: You never know what you’re going to get.”

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Antonym

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A word that means the opposite of another word

Ex: hot vs cold

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Comparative adjective

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An adjective used to compare 2 things

Bigger, angrier, prettier

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Contraction

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2 words shortened and combined, removing 1 or more letters and using an apostrophe.

Ex: can’t, don’t, isn’t

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Context

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How a word is used in a sentence.

Ex: last night I read a book called How to Read a Book.

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Consonants

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All letters that are NOT vowels.

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Connotation

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The feeling associated with a word.

Ex: blue = sad

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Contradiction

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Situations, ideas, or statements that are in opposition to one another.

Ex: “the sound of silence” or “a living ghost”

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Compare and contrast

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Look at how things are the same or how they are different from one another.

Ex: Elizabeth and Jonathan both like Legos but Elizabeth is a girl and Jonathan is a boy.

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Climax

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The most exciting part of a story

Ex: Aladdin escapes death at the ends of the earth and returns to save the day

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Conflict

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The main struggle in the story.

Ex: Jafar tries to steal the kingdom from the Sultan in Aladdin

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Denotation

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The dictionary definition of a word.

Ex: blue is a color

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Dialogue

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Conversation

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Foreshadowing

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Hints or clues the author gives that something is going to happen.

Ex: “it was a dark and stormy night.” Probably means something bad will happen

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Figurative language

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A literary device to help readers get a better picture in their minds.

Can use similes, metaphors, personification, etc.

Ex: “dancing stars filled the sky” or “the flames licked around her arm as played with the fire in the hearth”

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Fiction

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Books and stories that are make believe

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Genre

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What kind of story it is.

Ex: romance, mystery, horror, fairy tale

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration

Ex: “I’ve seen this movie a million times” or “I died of embarrassment”

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Homonym

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Words that sound the same but have different meanings (and sometimes spellings).

Ex: hoarse vs horse or bark (noise) vs bark (on a tree)

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Irony

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The part of a situation that is odd or amusing because it’s the opposite of what expected.

Ex: a fire station burns down or a police station is robbed.

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Idiom

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A phrase that has meaning you wouldn’t be able to deduce from the banging of the words used. A phrase that means something different from its literal meaning.

Ex: “break a leg!”

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Inference

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A conclusion or idea drawn from evidence or reason.

Ex: “I see you’re making a snack so you must be hungry.”

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Illustration

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Picture

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Metaphor

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Comparison withOUT using like or as

Ex: a heart of gold or your room is a pig stye!

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Myth

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Tale or story based on tradition or culture.

Ex: the Gods in Percy Jackson

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Nonfiction

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Book or story that is true or based on facts

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that describes a sound using the actual sound.

Ex: boom, hiss, buzz, pow

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Optimistic

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Tending to see the best in things and expect good outcomes. Hopeful and confident about the future.

Ex: Dory

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Plural

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More than 1

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Personification

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Gives human characteristics to animals, objects, or ideas.

Ex: “the sun smiled down on us” or “the idea hit her like a ton of bricks”

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Prediction or speculation

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A guess of what is going to happen next

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Prefix

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Word part that is added to the BEGINNING of a root word to change its meaning.

Ex: UNpopular, OVERwork, REread, DISengage

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Pessimistic

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Tending to see the worst in things and expect the worst to happen.

Ex: Eeyore

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Rhyme

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Words that have the same sounds

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Root word or base word

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Word used as a base to make longer words.

Ex: claustroPHOBIA, unCLEAR

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Singular

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1

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Setting

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Time and place

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Slang

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Informal or casual language.

Ex: “yo dude!” Instead of “excuse me sir”

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Suffix

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Word part added to the END of a base word to change its meaning.

Ex: jumpED, quickLY, biggER, comfortABLE

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Synonym

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A word that means the same as another word.

Ex: happy, joyful, cheery

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Superlative adjective

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Adjective used to describe something at the upper of lower limit (most extreme) of quality. Adjective describing the most or the least.

Ex: tallEST, fastEST

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

Ex: she was as grumpy as a raging bull

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Tone

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The mood or feeling a story creates.

Ex: the Undrowned is dark and scary

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Thesis statement

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Tells the main idea of a passage.

Ex: “Harry Potter is boy who finds out he is a wizard and discovers a magical world full of wonder and danger.”

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Theme

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The special message the author wants the reader to take away. An idea or topic that’s found throughout a story.

Ex: good vs evil, change, value of honesty

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Vowels

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A, E, I, O, U, sometimes Y

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Psyche

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Soul, mind

Ex: psychology

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Quartus

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Fourth

Ex: quadrant, quarter

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Tele

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At a distance

Ex: telephone, telepathy, television

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Thermos

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Heat

Ex: thermometer, thermostat

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Tri

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Three

Ex: trilogy, triangle, tricycle

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Unus

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One

Ex: unanimous, unilateral

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Video, visum

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See, seen

Ex: evident, visual

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Vita

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Life

Ex: vitality, vitamin

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Protagonist

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The main good guy in a story.

Ex: Harry Potter

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