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ELA Glossary Terms 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The repetition of the beginning of sounds of two or more neighboring words, such as"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepers." | Alliteration |
| Fundemental knowledge of how a person interacts with printed material based on the culture of the person. This knowledge forms the basis upon which a person learns to read. Examples: directionality, diff between letters & words, upper/lower case. | Convections of Print |
| Fundamental knowledge of how a person uses his or her own understanding of the written language when writing. This knowledge includes grammar, usage, mechanics (capitalization/punctuation), structure (topic sentence, paragraph) and spelling. | Convections of Writing |
| The process of logical reasoning that proceeds from the more general to the more specific; reasoning from whole to parts. | Deductive Reasoning |
| Two or more letters that make up a single sound, such as the PH sound in phone or the OO sound in foot. | Diagraph |
| A single vowel sound made when the tongue glides from one vowel sound to another in the same syllable, such as the OW sound in owl or the AI sound in main. | Dipthong |
| A mode of writing htat is informational in nature. It is used to explain, describe, or tell about something. | Expository |
| Language enriched by word images and figures of speech; not literal in its intent, but designed to make the reader take an imaginative leap to understand the author's point. Often includes the use of similes, metaphors, personification, etc. | Figurative Language |
| The ability to orally read words or express ideas with clarity and ease. | Fluency |
| A French term for a kind, a literary type or class. | Genre |
| One of two or more words that have the same spelling but differ in origin, meaning, and sometimes pronunciation, such as bear (animal) and bear (support, carry) or bow (weapon )and bow (forward part of a ship) and bow (bend in greeting/respect). | Homograph |
| A figure of speech in which subject exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, such as THAT TREE MUST BE A MILE TALL! | Hyperbole |
| A verbal expression that does not mean what it literally says and which may not be understood without local knowledge of the given language. For example, YOU'RE BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE is the equivalent of arriving at the wrong conclusion. | Idiom |
| The process of logical reasoning that proceeds from the more specific to the more general; reasoning from parts to a whole. | Inductive Reasoning |
| A change in the form of a word by the addition of an affix or by changing the base of the word to indicate grammatical features, such as number, person, tense, or mood, for example RUN to RUNS or RUN t o RAN. | Inflection |
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