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Vocabulary List 4
Question | Answer |
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Evidence | The information that supports the topic sentence. |
Elaboration | Explaining your evidence more. |
Inference | A logical guess or conclusion based on observation, prior experience, or textual evidence. |
Prediction | A logical guess or assumption about something that has not yet happened. |
Simile | A comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as. |
Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another. |
Connotation | The suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word- beyond a literal definition. |
Denotation | The exact, literal meaning of a word (dictionary definition). |
Imagery | Details that create a word picture and appeal to one or more of the five senses. |
Paraphrase | To restate in one’s own words. |