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Quarter 1
Language Arts
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acrostic | A type of poem |
| Diversity | The state of having different type of races or other things |
| Credible | Trustful |
| Enculturation | The slow day to day process of learning your group's culture as a infant and a child |
| Reiterate | To repeat something you have already said in order to emphasize it |
| Assimilation | To cause a person or group to become part of a different society |
| Extract | To receive or take from something |
| Concrete | To be able to see or touch |
| Imagery | A language that causes people to understand through picture |
| Analogy | The act of comparing into things that are alike. |
| Metaphor | Something that is used to symbol something |
| Simile | A composition usually in verse in which sets of letters taken in order form a word or phrase or a regular sequence of letters of the alphabet |
| Symbolism | Using a word or picture to represent a particular idea, feeling, or meaning. |
| Aspiration | Something that a person wants very much to achieve |
| Refrain | A sentence that is commonly repeated |
| Hook | A statement that catches someone attention |
| Thesis | A statement that someone wants to discuss or prove |