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6th Grade Flashcards

20 Terms for a Sixth Grade English class

TermDefinition
Antagonist someone who offers opposition
Protagonist the principal character in a work of fiction
Legacy A gift of personal property by will
Lore knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
Idiom an expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
Mystery something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
Red Herring diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue
Inductive Reasoning reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
Deductive Reasoning reasoning from the general to the particular
Imagery the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
Meter a basic unit of length
Metaphor a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
Simile a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
Alliteration use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
Onomatopoeia using words that imitate the sound they denote
Memoir an account of the author's personal experiences
Personification attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
Realism the attribute of accepting the facts of life
Etymology a history of a word
Inference drawing a conclusion on the basis of circumstantial evidence
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