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ELA 11514
6th grade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |