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- greatest common factor
- the greatest number that is a factor of all the numbers
- rational number
- a number that can be written as a fraction with a numerator that is an integer and a denominator that has an integer greater than 0
- folktale
- story preserved through the centuries, usually from an oral tradition, passed from generation to generation
- realistic fiction
- fictional story where people and evets are realistic and could happen in real life
- fable
- story whose purpose is to teach a lesson or moral
- simile
- a figurative expression when 1 object is compared to another by the use of such terms as like, as, so, etc.
- fiction
- story in which characters and incidents are wholly or partly imaginary
- numerator
- the number above the bar in a fraction
- science fiction
- story in an unreal world based on varying degress of scientific facts
- biography
- account of a person's life told by someone other than that person
- mystery
- story with an event that arouses curiosity or suspense with a problem to solve using clues
- alliteration
- the occurance in a phrase or line, of 2 or more words having the same intial sound orr sound cluster.
- composite number
- a whole number greater than 1 that has more than 2 factors
- factor
- a number that is multiplied to give a product
- least common multiple
- the smallest counting number that is divisible bby the given numbers
- fantasy
- story set in an unreal world with events that could not happen
- denominator
- the number below the bar in a fraction
- metaphor
- a figurative expression when 1 object is compared to another by speakin of it as if it were that other
- tall tale
- fictional story that uses exaggeration
- autobiography
- an account of a person's life as told by that person him or herself
- personification
- figurative endowment of unloving objects with personality or human attributes.
- genre
- a category of literature
- nonfiction
- literature which is not fiction
- historical fiction
- fictional story based actual historical events, but with fictional litery elements