Literary Terms and Concepts

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Context

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The words or sentences around a word or part of the text that help you understand its meaning.

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Evidence

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Facts or details that show or prove an idea or guess.

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Comprehension

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Understanding what you read by thinking about it and connecting ideas in the text.

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Inference

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A smart guess you make by putting together clues or information.

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Prediction

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A guess about what will happen next based on details from the story.

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Annotate

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Writing notes or comments in the margins of a text to help you remember important ideas or understand it better.

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Paraphrase

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Saying something in your own words without changing its meaning.

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Summarize

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Giving a shorter version of a text by telling just the main ideas.

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Character’s Internal Response

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How a character feels or thinks inside.

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Character’s External Response

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How a character shows their feelings or thoughts through what they say or do.