SOL Reading Review
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- Context Clue
- a method by which the meanings of unknown words may be obtained by examining the parts of a sentence surrounding the word fo
- Conclusion
- The close or last part; the end or finish.
- Encyclopedia
- a book or set of books containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge or, less commonly, all aspects of one subject.
- Word origin
- The historical context of the formation of a word.
- Personification
- giving a non-human object human qualities.
- Idiom
- a phrase or expression which means something different from what the words actually say.
- Haiku
- a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables
- Short Story
- a work of prose fiction that is shorter than a novel
- Antonym
- a word that means the opposite of another word
- Setting
- the setting is the time, place, and atmosphere in which a story's events occur.
- Foreshadowing
- to indicate or suggest something
- Theme
- the theme is the big idea that a story conveys about life.
- Repetition
- The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated
- Free verse
- a verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
- Folk Tale
- a story or legend that is passed down orally from one generation to the next and becomes part of a community's tradition
- Hyperbole
- extreme exaggeration used for emphasis.
- Inference
- The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence
- Figurative
- using or containing a non-literal sense of a word or words
- Analogy
- a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based
- Conflict
- a fight, battle, or struggle between characters or opposing forces.
- Atlas
- a bound collection of maps
- Literal
- being actually such, without exaggeration or inaccuracy
- Plot
- is the series of related events that make up the story.
- Thesaurus
- a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms
- Prefix
- a linguistic element that is not an independent word but is attached to the beginning of words to modify their meaning
- Autobiography
- an account of somebody's life written by that person
- Metaphor
- a comparison of two unrelated thing without using like or as.
- Imagery
- Imagery is language that appeals to the senses.
- Root
- the basic meaningful part of a word
- Simile
- a comparison of two unrelated items using like or as.
- Synonym
- a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another
- Rhythm
- movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
- Ballad
- a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.
- Limerick
- A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme
- Suffix
- a letter or group of letters added at the end of a word or word part to form another word
- Rhyme
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines
- Onomatopoeia
- using words that imitate the sound they denote
- Biography
- an account of somebody's life
- Glossary
- a list of terms in a special subject, field, or area of usage, with accompanying definitions