Test Tips
What is a question asking if it says find "the most likely" answer
The correct one
Compound Sentence
More than one subject or predicate
Prepositional Phrase
tells the location of something
Consonance
Repeating the sound of a vowel
Infer
To make an educated guess about something
Context
Words and information that make sense of a word
Dialogue
People talking
Precise
Exact
Alliteration
Using the same letter to start many words in a sentence
Apathy
Lack of interest
Central Idea
Main Idea
Parallelism
EX. I like to hike, walk, and eat.
Direct Characterization
Clearly describing someone
Slant rhyme
Tone
Tells how the author feels about something
Do your best
Connotation
The feeling you get from a word
Indirect Characterization
Hinting at a description of someone
Onomatopoeia
Ex. Boom
Allusion
a refrence to something
What is Mrs. Wilson's puppy named?
Cleo
Etymology
The study of the origin of words to explain where words come from
Ironic
Something happens that was teh opposite of what was expected
Consonance
Repeating the sound of consonants (not vowels)
Objective
without personal opinions