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Exposition
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The begining part of a story or play that describes and introduces the main characters.
Exposition helps the reader get an idea of who, when, and what a story or play is about. |
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Fable
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A brief tale that uses animals as characters and teaches a moral or lesson.
In the famous Aesop fable, The tortoise and the Har, the moral is perseverance pays off. |
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Fairy Tale
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Short stories, which conntain magic of supernatural characters, good and evil characters. Usually fairy tales end happily ever after.
Many Fairy Tales begin :Once upon a time..."
Buaty and the Beast is a well-known fairy tale. |
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Fanatasy
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A story in which something impossible is made to seem real.
Stuart Little is a mouse who seems like a person. |
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Fiction
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Literature that tells stories about characters, setting, and events that the writer makes up.
Non-true stories. |
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Legend
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A fictional story handed down from the past by many generations. It has sone truth in it that is often based on a real heroic character.
Johnny Appleseed is a famous American Legend. |
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Figurative language
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Language used by authors in writing to create a special effect or feeling or to make their writing more interesting.
Similes, metaphors, personification, and imagery are some exasmples of figuative language. |
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Flashback
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An author incluudes an event or scene from the past in a specific place in the story to help the reader understand what is happening.
A writer sometimes uses a flashback by having an adult character recall a childhood experience that connects to what is happening in the story. |
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Folk Tale
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Is a story that is made up and passed from one generation to the next. Usually these stories were not written at first, but passed on orally.
Folk tales are diffent from country to country, but people all around the world tell them. Examples of folk tales are fairy tales, legends, myths, and fables. |
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Foreshadowing
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A hint of events to come later in the text.
Dark clouds at the beginning of a story may foreshadow danger that will happen later in the story. |
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Genre
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A french word that means type or form of literature.
Different genres may include: biography, fairy tale, historical fiction, nonfiction, etc... |
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Historical Fiction
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A genre that uses details about real places, events, and times from history such as the setting for an imaginary story.
Number of Stars by Lois Lowry is an example of a historical fiction novel |
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Idiom
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Is an everyday saying that uses words in a different ways thatn their usual meaning.
The followings are examples of Idioms:
"down in the dump"
"break a leg"
"raining cats an dogs" |
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Imagery
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The use of descriptive words to create a mental picture in the reader's mind.
Imagery apperals to the reader's sight, sound, taste, and smell. |
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Main Idea
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The one idea that all sentences in a paragraph tell about.
Sometimes the main ideas is started in a topic sentence, sometimes it is implied. |
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Metaphor
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A comparison of 2 things that are not alike except in one way. The comparison does not use the words "like" or "as."
What a teddy bear he is! |
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Mood
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The feeling that the author wants the reader to get from the story.
The mood of the murder mystery was suspenseful and scary. |
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Moral
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A lesson that the author wants the reader to get from the story.
The moral of the famous story, Little Red Ridding Hood is: Never talk to strangers. |
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