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same repeating sound usually at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
to tell how things are alike and how they are different
What is to compare and contrast?
words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings
What are homonyms?
a guess of what might happen next or in the future
What is a prediction?
a person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
a comparison made between two things to show how they are alike
What is an analogy?
to read and make corrections
What is proofread.
an alphabetical listing in the back of a book of major concepts and the page on which each word appears
What is an index?
the practice of quoting from books or plays, etc
What is a quotation?
a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
What is an outline?
a group that reads a piece of writing; often influences an author's purpose
What is an audience?
combining information from a story with information from your own experience to understand the real meaning of what an author has written
What is drawing a conclusion?
an educated guess based on the text and the reader's prior knowledge
What is an inference?
punctuation marks that show when someone is speaking
What are quotation marks?
a form of a verb that tells when something takes place - past, present, or future
What is verb tense?
the reason an author writes a selection - to entertain, to persuade, to express ideas and feelings, to inform
What is author's purpose?
a short story that has a lesson, usually using speaking animals as characters
What is a fable?
a comparison of two unrelated things without using the words "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
words that show sequence - (i.e., first, next, then, last, finally, meanwhile, etc.)
What are time order words?
a sentence or label that appears near a graphic to explain what it means
What is a caption?
a type or style of writing or the kind of story
What is genre?
nouns that show ownership
What are possessive nouns?
a group of words that is missing the subject, verb, or does not express a complete thought
What is a sentence fragment or incomplete sentence?
the sentence that tells the main idea
What is the topic sentence?