Reading Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Analogy | a relationship or connection between word pairs |
| Antonyms | words with opposite meanings |
| Author's Purpose | is the reason for writing |
| Cause | the reason something happens |
| Characters | are people or animals in a story |
| Chronology | time order |
| Compare | is to find what is alike or the same |
| Compound Word | is two small words put together to form a third, new word |
| Contrast | is to find what is different or dissimilar |
| Fact | real information that can be proved |
| Opinion | Information that doesn't have to be real, but what a person thinks or believes |
| Effect | the result of something happening |
| Flashback | an event that happens before the story begins, but is decribed after the story starts |
| Homonyms | words that sound alike, but have different meanings |
| Imagery | makes a picture in your mind, usually using your five senses |
| Foreshadowing | a clue or hint about an event later in the story |
| Inference | a reasonable guess or conclusion you can make about information in a reading |
| Main Idea | the most important idea ina reading. |
| Metaphor | a comparison |
| Mood | the feeling a reader gets from a text |
| Multiple-meaning Words | have more than one meaning |
| Paraphrase | retell a passage in your own words, including the main idea and supporting details |
| Personification | shows human feelings or actions in animals or things |
| Plot | is the events or actions of a story |
| Point-of-view | how the narrator sees and tells the story |
| Prefix | a word part added to the beginning of a word |
| Problem Resolution | the outcome or conclusion of a story |
| Root | the part of a word with the main meaning |
| Sequence | the order of events |
| Setting | the time and place a story happens |
| Simile | uses 'like' or 'as' to compare |
| Suffix | is a word part added to the end of the word |
| Summarize | is to find and describe the most important ideas in a passage |
| Supporting Detail | is a fact, example, or explanation that helps you understand the main idea |
| Synonyms | are words with similar meanings |
| Theme | is the central idea, lesson, or message of a story |
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