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6th Grade Flashcards
20 Terms for a Sixth Grade English class
Term | Definition |
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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 |