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reading terms b
reading terms c
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The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
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Main character in a literary story
What is protagonist?
100
underlying main idea of a story or passage
What is theme?
100

A true story filled with facts

Non-fiction 

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a word, letter, placed before another

Prefix


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The turning point in a story
What is climax?
200
character that is source of conflict for the protagonist
What is antagonist?
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Drawing conclusions based on evidence and reasoning.

Inference
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A made up story. 

Ficiton

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Who is telling the story (First person vs. Third person)

Point of view

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Events that happen after the climax
What is falling action?
300
comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
300

Descriptive adjectives about a character's personality

Character Traits

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Creating mental pictures to better understand the story or information.

Visualizing 

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Finding similarities and differences between characters or stories

Compare and Contrast

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time and place of a story or passage
What is setting?
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phrase where non-human characteristics are given human characteristics "The tree cried when the rain hit its branches."
What is personification?
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Retelling the story in a few sentences. 

Summarizing 

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 Identifying the primary point or central message the author is communicating

Theme or Main message

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 Identifying why something happened and what happened as a result

Cause and Effect

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Events that lead up to the climax

Rising action

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returning to an earlier time in a story; to help make the present clear "As the teacher yelled, all he could remember was how his dad used to yell at him when before he disappeared."
What is a flashback?
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the feeling you have when reading a passage
What is mood?
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The category of writing

Genre

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struggle betwen two or more opposing forces
What is conflict?