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Vocabulary
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What I should Know
100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100

A list of words and definitions towards the end of a text book.

What is the glossary?

100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100

This is when you give "people like qualities" to inanimate objects.

What is personification.

200
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
200
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
200
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
200
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200

This is a group of lines in a poem.  Kind of like a paragraph.

What is a stanza.

300
This is the list of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
300
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
300
This reference lists synonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
300
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
300

This is when the author gives the reader a hint that something is going to happen.

What is foreshadowing.

400

This is the part of the story when the suspense is at it's highest or the most exciting part of the story.

What is the climax?

400

This is at the end of an article and it lists where the information came from.

What is a reference or source?

400

When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word.

What is a prefix?

400
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
400

This is a series of events that makes up the story.

What is the plot.

500
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life.
What is theme?
500

The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.

What is the last paragraph or conclusion

500
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
What are homophones?
500
"Rain drummed a steady tempo on the roof" is an example of this.
What is imagery?
500

This is a fictional story that has a life lesson.  Some have been passed down from generations.

What is a folktale.