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Parts of a Story
Reading Vocab
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Lit. Words
Comprehension
100
A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader.
What is a theme?
100
A person or animal that performs the action in the story
What are characters?
100
words that have the same meaning
What are synonyms?
100
purpose is to entertain
What is a narrative?
100
Using what you have read and what you already know to make a judgment about what something means
What is inference?
200
time and place of the story
What is a setting?
200
ending or outcome of the story
What is the resolution?
200
words that have the opposite meaning
What are antonyms?
200
purpose is to inform
What is an expository?
200
most important idea from a text
What is the main idea?
300
Fiction text that tells a story with characters and a plot
What is a narrative?
300
Problem of the story
What is the conflict?
300
comes at the beginning of a word
What is a prefix?
300
Text showing how two things are similar and different
What is compare and contrast structure?
300
Proof or reasons that support a conclusion
What is evidence?
400
What happens in the story
What is the plot?
400
Figuring out the meaning of a word using the words and sentences
What are context clues?
400
basic part of the word
What is a root word?
400
Text that tells what happened and why it happened
What is cause and effect structure?
400
Using information from the text and from your own background knowledge to answer the question
What is drawing conclusions?
500
The details that are used to describe the characters
What are character traits?
500
When the action, conflict, and tension reach a critical point
What is the climax?
500
Comes at the end of a word
What is a suffix?
500
what the passage is about
What is topic?
500
A personal belief or judgment
What is an opinion?