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ELA 11514
6th grade
Term | Definition |
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Employ | to make use of (an instrument, means, etc.); use; apply: to employ a hammer to drive a nail. |
Foreign Phrases | a portrait of a person or a situation. |
Genre | class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like |
Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
Imagery | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively |
Inference | to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: |
Mnemonic Devices | to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: |
Writing modes | There are four basic modes, descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive. |
Multiple Meanings | are words that have several meanings depending upon how they are used in a sentence. |
Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects |
Rhyme/Rhythm | sentence has the same end sound/a pattern of beats |
Point of view | the position of the narrator in relation to the story |
Propaganda | information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. |
Relevant/Relevancy | expressing quality, state or condition, as opp. to action/signifying properly quality or state |
Sequential Order | arranges things or is an arrangement of items in a predicable order; like pages of a book. |
Thesis Statement | short statement, usually one sentence, that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay |
stressed/unstressed syllables | are the ones that get pronounced more forcefully/are the ones that get pronounced less forcefully |
Clauses | a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence. |