Academic Vocabulary

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Compare

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To tell how things are similar or the same.

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Figurative Language

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A statement that does NOT mean what it says.

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Main Idea

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What the text is mostly about.

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First Person Point of View

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When the narrator is telling the story from inside of it.

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Point of View

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When a story is told from a certain view or perspective of a narrator.

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Contrast

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To tell how things are different.

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Theme

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The underlying message or main idea of a story.

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Idiom

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A phrase that has a meaning different from the literal meaning of the words.

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Simile

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A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.