figurative language: writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.
genre: type of literature such as poetry, drama, or prose.
folk tale: story passed down orally until written down.
glossary: small dictionary located in the back of a book.
guide words: words located at the top of a page that tell you the first and last words on the page. Often located in dictionaries or encyclopedias.
historical fiction: an untrue story about a true event or real person in history.
identify: pick out or find.
illustrations: drawings or pictures.
italics: slanted writing used to stress a point.
least useful: to the smallest degree.
main idea: what a passage or story is mostly about.
moral: lesson taught in a literary work.
most similiar: most alike.
most useful: the greatest degree.
mystery: a story when something is not understood and clues are used to solve the problem.
myth: legend in the past that presents a belief of a group of people. Explains how things were created and often tells of gods or creatures that existed.
nonfiction: a true story or book.
novel: a book normally with chapters.
opinion: something someone thinks or feels and cannot be proven.
parenthesis: ( ) used to give more information.
passage: an exerpt or portion of a larger reading selection.
poem: written in stanzas and may have rhyme, rhythm or repetition.
realistic fiction: a story that could happen but did not happen.
recommend: tells someone what to do or suggests something to do.
resolution: solution to conflict in a plot.
setting: when and where a story takes place.
summarize: a brief statement or short paragraph that covers all the main points in an article or story.
tall tale: story which is greatly exaggerated.
thesaurus: a book of words and their synonyms and their antonyms.
