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- fable
- a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- antonym
- two words that express opposing concepts
- compound word
- A compound word is made when two words are joined to form a new word.
- tall tale
- An exaggerated, unreliable story: Paul Bunyan
- prefix
- an affix that added in front of the word
- fairy tale
- fantasy story involving good and evil
- suffix
- an affix that is added at the end of the word
- contraction
- a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds
- synonym
- A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other.
- main idea
- what a piece of writing is mainly about
- setting
- arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
- plot
- the main sequence of events in a story
- science fiction
- literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society
- point of view
- "eyes" through which the story is told
- bias
- Feeling toward or against a certain person, group or idea
- root word
- the base component of a term which gives it a meaning that may be modified by other components
- legend
- a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
- atlas
- a collection of maps in book form
- syllable
- unit of sound in a word
- Biography
- The story or a person's lire written by another person