Mr.Jay's GED Reading Vocabulary
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- adventure story
- a work of literature in which the characters take risks
- advertisement
- a public notice degined to attract attention or customers
- applying ideas
- taking an idea and using it in another sistuation
- autobiography
- the true story of real person's life written by that person
- bias
- a strong preference for a particular point of view
- biographer
- the writer of a biography
- biography
- the true story of a real person's life written by another person
- brochure
- a booklet or pamphlet containing informative or advertising material
- cause
- a person, thing, or event that brings about a result
- character
- a person in a story or play
- classic literature
- literature that has set a high standard of excellence, remains meaningful, and continues to be read after many years
- comedy
- a play that is meant to be funny
- compare
- to find the ways things are alike
- conclusion
- a judgement or opinion based on facts and details
- conflict
- a struggle or problem between characters of forces
- context clues
- the words and sentences surrounding a word or pharse. The context of a word helps show what that word means
- contrast
- to find the ways things are different
- detail
- a fact about a person, place, thing, event, or time.Details answer the question who, what, when, where, why, and how
- dialogue
- the conversation between characters
- document
- an official paper used as the basis, proof, or support for something
- drama
- a story written in dialogue and meant to be acted on a stage
- effect
- the result of a cause
- essay
- a short piece of nonfiction writing that gives the author's opinion about something
- fact
- a statement that can be proved true
- fiction
- writing that is about people, places, and events invented by the author
- figurative language
- words used in a special way to make a point. Personification is an example
- folk novel
- an elaborate work of fiction that people tell over and over for generations. Folks novels explain people's beliefs of how things began and include many events,people, and experiences.
- folktale
- a story that people tell over and over for many generations. Folktales often explain how people believe things began
- form
- a printed document with blank spaces to be filled in with specific information
- handbook
- a concise reference book covering a particular subject
- head
- a headline; an important main caption or title
- implied main idea
- a main idea that is not directly stated but is suggested by the author
- inference
- an idea that the reader figures out based on clues an author present and what the reader already knows
- legal document
- an official paper based on laws
- magazine article
- an informational piece that apperas in a magazine
- main idea
- the most important point in a paragraph or passage
- manual
- a reference book used to give instructions on how to do something or operate something
- mood
- the atmosphere the author creates in a written work
- mystery novel
- a story about solving a puzzle.The main character of a mystery is usually a detective who has to figure out who commited a crime
- narrator
- the character telling the story
- nonfiction
- writing that is about real people, places and events
- novel
- a long work of fiction that can include many events, people, and experiences
- opinion
- a judgement or belief
- personification
- a type of figurative language that gives human qualities to something that is not human. Example: The leaves danced in the wind
- persuasive essay
- an essay that is meant to get the reader to think or act a certain way
- play
- a story that is written in dialogue and is meant to be acted on a stage
- plot
- the series of events that create the action of a story
- poet
- a writer of poetry
- poetry
- literature that uses words in speciall ways to show feelings and create images. Poetry is usually arranged in short lines
- point of view
- the way the action is seen by the narrator or author of a story
- popular drama
- recently written plays
- popular fiction
- recently written works including short stories, novels, and plays. Fiction comes from the author's imagination
- popular novel
- a recently written book about people and events that are not real
- popular poetry
- recently written poetry
- popular short story
- a recently written work of fiction that is shorter than a novel but has a full plot and a single theme
- predict
- to tell what you think will happen in the future
- preview
- to look at somthing beforehand
- purpose
- the reason something is done
- restating
- to say something again using different words
- review
- a short piece of writing that tells what a writer to critic thinks of a book, movie, TV program, musical performance, or work of art
- rhythm
- the reception of sounds or phrases that make up the beat of a poem
- scan
- to look at quickly; to browse for specific information
- science fiction
- fictional stories based on the possibilities found in science. science fiction shows what life and people might be like in another time or place, usually in the future
- sequence
- the order in which events occur; time order
- setting
- the time and place in which the events of a story take place
- short story
- a work of fiction that is shorter than a novel but has full plot and a single theme
- skim
- to read somthing quickly, looking for main ideas and main characters
- social drama
- a play that deals with a major social issue
- stage directions
- the directions in a play that tell the actors where to move on the stage or how to say their lines
- stated main idea
- a statement thet clearly tells the most important point of a paragraph or story. To restate a main idea means to put in different in words
- subhead
- a heading of a part( as in an outline); a caption, title, or heading of less importance than the main heading
- summarize
- to state briefly the most important ideas of a longer piece of writing
- summary
- a short statement of the main idea and most important supporting details of s passage
- synonymus
- words that have the same or nearly the same meaning. Examples: paste and glue
- synthesizing
- putting together several elements to form a whole idea
- theme
- a general truth about life or human nature that is suggested in a work of literature
- thriller novel
- a work of fiction that is meant to scare the reader; also called a horror novel
- tone
- the author's attitude or feeling about a subject
- visualize
- to form a picture in your mind