| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words |
| Allusion | a reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event |
| Analysis | the process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another |
| Antonym | a word that is the opposite of another word |
| Characterization | the method and author uses to reveal characters and their personalities |
| Compare | a literary technique of placing together characters, situations, or ideas to show common or differing features |
| Context clues | information from the reading that identifies a word or group of words |
| Conventions of Language | mechanics, usage, and sentence completeness |
| Evaluation | examine and judge carefully |
| Figurative Language | language than cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling |
| Fluency | the clear, easy written or spoken expression of ideas; freedom from word indentification problems that might hinder comprehension in silent reading or the expression of ideas in oral reading |
| Focus | the center or interest of attention |
| Genre | a category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique, or content, for example, poetry, nonfiction |
| Graphic organizer | a diagram or pictorial device that shows relationships |
| Homophone | a word that is pronounced the same but has different meaning |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration or overstatement |
| Idiomatic language | an expression peculiar to itself grammatically or that cannon be understood if taken literally |
| Irony | using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning |
| Literary conflict | the struggle that grows out of the interplay of the two opposing forces in a plot |
| Literary elements | the essential techniques used in literature, such as characterization, setting, plot, and theme |
| Literary devices | tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the writing, such as voice and alliteration |
| Literary structures | the author's method or organizing text, such as foreshadowing and flashbacks |
| Metaphor | comparing of two unlike things in which no words of comparision are used |
| Meter | the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| Narrative | story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in writing |
| Paraphrase | a restatement of a text or passage in other words, often to clarify meaning or show understanding |
| Pattern book | a book with a predictable plot structure and often written with predictable text, also know as predictable book |
| Personification | an object or abstract idea is given human qualities or human form |
| Phonics | the relationship between letters and sounds funamental in beginning reading |
| Point of view | the way in which an author reveals character, events and ideas in telling a story; the vantage point from which the story is told |
| Public document | documents that focus on civic issues or matters of public policy at the community level and beyond |
| Reading critically | reading in which a questioning attidue, logical analysis, and inference to judge the worth of text; evaluating relevancy and adequacy of what is read; the judgment of validity, or worth of what is read, based on sound criteria |
| Reading rate | the speed at which a person reads, usually silently |
| Research | a systematic inquiry into a subject or problem in order to discover, verify, or revise relevant facts or princibles having to do with that subject or problem |
| Satire | a literary tone used to ridicule of make fun of human vice or weakness |
| Self-monitor | knowing when what one is reading or writing is making sense and adjusting strategies for comprehension |
| Semantics | the study of meaning in language |
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