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| 7765469795 | Adjectives | A word that describes someone or something. | 0 | |
| 7765474650 | Allegory | A story in which people things and actions represent an idea or generalization about life. | 1 | |
| 7765491968 | Aside | A dramatic device in which a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud. | 2 | |
| 7765505432 | Assonance | a repetition of vowel sounds without consonant repetition. | 3 | |
| 7765513770 | Ballad | Poem in verse form that tells a story | 4 | |
| 7765541063 | Clause | A group of related words that has both a subject and a predicate. | 5 | |
| 7765552874 | Climax | the high point | 6 | |
| 7765556588 | Conflict | the struggle between opposing forces | 7 | |
| 7765561476 | connotation | the attitudes and feelings associated with a word | 8 | |
| 7765568517 | denotation | the literal dictionary definition | 9 | |
| 7765574720 | Description | how the author creates a scene | 10 | |
| 7765582714 | Dialect | a particular variety of language spoken in one place | 11 | |
| 7765597712 | Diction | an authors choice of words based on their correctness | 12 | |
| 7765605255 | Discourse | formal extended expression of though on a subject | 13 | |
| 7765613298 | Epic | a long narrative that tells of deeds and adventures of a hero | 14 | |
| 7765622275 | Essay | brief work of nonfiction that offer an opinion on a subject | 15 | |
| 7765637011 | Extended metaphor | a comparison of unlike things that is long | 16 | |
| 7765642947 | fable | a short simple story that teaches a lesson | 17 | |
| 7765648540 | fairy tale | a story written for children that includes magic | 18 | |
| 7765676853 | figurative language | language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary or literal meaning | 19 | |
| 7765690159 | foreshadowing | a writers use of hints or clues to indicate events that will occur later. | 20 | |
| 7765699248 | Genre | a category of literature | 21 | |
| 7765704525 | Homograph | one of two or more words spelled alike but different in meaning | 22 | |
| 7765732568 | Hyperbole | an intentional exaggeration for effect | 23 | |
| 7765748864 | Idiom | a phrase that means something different from the words | 24 | |
| 7765759782 | Independent clause | presents a complete thought and can alone as a sentence | 25 | |
| 7765765834 | Irony | the contrast between expectation and reality | 26 | |
| 7765775453 | Jargon | Language used in certain profession or by a particular group of people | 27 | |
| 7765783945 | Main Character | leading character | 28 | |
| 7765790886 | main idea | overall thought or position | 29 | |
| 7765796115 | metaphor | figure of speech that makes a comparison between 2 different things but have one thing in common | 30 | |
| 7765807114 | Meter | in poetry the re-occurrence or rhythmic pattern | 31 | |
| 7765817969 | Monologue | * soliloquy | 32 | |
| 7765830378 | Mood | the feeling the writer creates | 33 | |
| 7765836951 | Moral | the lesson of a story | 34 | |
| 7765840029 | Myth | a traditional story that explains the way the world is | 35 | |
| 7765848656 | narrator | person telling the story | 36 | |
| 7765851272 | noun | a word that is the name of something | 37 | |
| 7765855202 | novel | an extended work of fiction | 38 | |
| 7765861976 | onomatopoeia | a word that sounds like its meaning | 39 | |
| 7765866718 | oral | spoken word | 40 | |
| 7765869254 | paradox | a statement that contradicts itself | 41 | |
| 7765875521 | parody | a work that mocks another work | 42 | |
| 7765881510 | Prose | writing or speaking in the normal way | 43 | |
| 7765886564 | Protagonist | the main character | 44 | |
| 7765890116 | pun | a joke that is created by words | 45 | |
| 7765902984 | Resolution | when the problem is solved | 46 | |
| 7765907327 | Rhetoric | the art of effective expression | 47 | |
| 7765918728 | Rhythm | the pattern of stressed syllables | 48 | |
| 7765932814 | Rising action | the events of the story that move the plot forward | 49 | |
| 7765951701 | Satire | a literary technique ridiculing to improve society | 50 | |
| 7765959605 | Scaffolding | assistance by a teacher or peer | 51 | |
| 7765968759 | Script | the text of a play | 52 | |
| 7765973602 | Sentence | a group of words expressing one or more thoughts | 53 | |
| 7765983132 | setting | the time and place | 54 | |
| 7765983133 | simile | a comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as | 55 | |
| 7765994147 | soliloquy | a speech in dramatic work when the character speaks aloud | 56 | |
| 7765999718 | sonnet | a poem consisting of fourteen line of iambic pentameter | 57 | |
| 7766008259 | source | a text used for information | 58 | |
| 7766013325 | symbol | a thing that represents something beyond itself | 59 | |
| 7766018543 | symbolism | the heavy use of symbols | 60 | |
| 7766023555 | syntax | the way words are put together to make sentences | 61 | |
| 7766031033 | tall tale | an American story characterized by exaggeration | 62 | |
| 7766040237 | Text complexity band | a range of text difficulty corresponding to grade spans within the standards | 63 | |
| 7766051282 | textual evidence | same as evidence | 64 | |
| 7766055366 | theme | a central idea that is represented in a person or action and image | 65 | |
| 7766066286 | Thesis | the attitude of the writer who will support it | 66 | |
| 7766075195 | tone | an expression of a writers attitude towards a subject | 67 | |
| 7766091803 | understatement | a technique of creating emphasis by saying less than is true | 68 | |
| 7766102518 | verse | a unit of poetry | 69 | |
| 7766112287 | voice | the order of words that indicates whether the subject is acted or being acted on | 70 |
