EOG Reading Vocab (1)
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- folktales
- fiction stories that have been told for generations
- fairy tales
- folktales that often include royal characters, magic, and good winning over evil
- fables
- folktales that have a moral; usually have animal characters that teach a lesson
- moral
- a lesson taught in a fable
- legends
- folktales about peple or events from history; often told as ghost stories
- tall tales
- folktales full of exaggeration; tales that are too big to believe
- realistic fiction
- a make believe story that could have happened
- historical fiction
- a make believe story that could have happened a long time ago, setting is a true part of history
- poem
- a ocmposition in verse
- poetry
- writing that often has rhythm and rhyme
- poet
- the writer of a poem
- rhythm
- the "beat" of a poem, the pattern of loud and soft syllables in a line of poetry
- rhyme
- when the last word of two lines in a poem sound alike
- mood
- the feeling you get from a poem; sometimes silly or fun, other times serious or sad
- stanza
- part of a poem, usually several line separated from teh rest of the poem by a space
- verse
- part of a poem, usually several line separated from the rest of the poem by a space
- repetition
- the act of repeating something said or done