Literary Vocab Terms

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Power or action causing effect on another.

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influence

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Conclusion based on text evidence and reasoning

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inference

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Knowledge, facts, or news given to someone

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inform

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Story with animal characters teaching a moral

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fable

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Box under a graphic that describes it

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caption

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Related to history

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historical

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An exaggeration

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hyperbole

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Giving human-like qualities to non-human things

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personification

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Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'

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simile

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Comparing two things without like or as

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metaphor