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ELA Final Exam Vocab
Sixth Grade ELA Final Exam Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Genre | A major category or type of literature |
| Gist | The main point |
| Inference | A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience |
| Main Idea | What the message is mostly about |
| Predict | To give an expected result |
| Visualize | To form a mental image of something; imagine |
| Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events |
| Expository | Intended to explain or describe something |
| Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader |
| Theme | The moral or lesson of the story |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts or attitudes |
| Simile | The comparasion of two unlike things using like or as |
| Claim | The writer's position on an issue or problem |
| Evidence | Proof that something is true |
| Stanza | A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents |
| Hook | Grabs the readers attention |
| Trait | A distinguishing quality or characteristic |
| Clincher | Closing ideas designed to keep the reader thinking |
| Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |
| First person point of view | Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" and "we" |