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- Genre
- a category of literature
- greatest common factor
- the greatest number that is a factor of all number
- Historical fiction
- fictional story based actual historical events, but with fictional literary elements
- Tall tale
- fictional story that uses exaggeration
- Science fiction
- story in a fantasy world based on varying degrees of scientific facts
- factor
- a number that is multiplied to give a product
- Numerator
- the number above the bar in a fraction
- Nonfiction
- literature which is not fiction
- Simile
- a figurative expression when 1 object is compared to another by the use of terms as like, as, so, ect
- least common Multiple
- the smallest counting number that is divisable by the given number
- Denominator
- the number below the bar in a fraction
- Folktale
- story preserved through the centuries, usually from an oral tradition, passed from generation to generation
- Personification
- figurative endowment of unloving objects with personality or human attributes
- Fiction
- story in which character & incidents are wholly or partly imaginary
- Biography
- an account of a person's life told by someone other than that person
- Realistic Fiction
- fictional story where people and events are realistic and could happen in real life
- Compsite number
- a whole number greater than 1 that has more than 2 factors
- mystery
- story with an event that arouses curiosity or suspense with a problem to solve using clues
- Metaphor
- a figurative expression when 1 object is compared to another by speaking of it as if it were that other
- Alliteration
- the occurrence, in a phrase or line, of 2 or more having the same initial sound cluster
- Fantasy
- story set in an unreal world with events that could not happen
- Rational number
- a number that can be written as a fraction with a numerator that is integer and a denominator that has an integer greater than 0
- Fable
- story whose purpose is to teach a lesson or moral
- Autobiography
- an account of a person's life as told by that person him or herself