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Figurative Language
English Vocabulary
Reading Skills
Writing
Literature
100
Metaphor
a comparison used to show additional meaning
100
nonfiction
true stories or information
100
summarize
To restate or paraprase in to
100
What is a thesis?
The main idea of a written composition
100
Edgar Allan Poe
Who wrote "The Tell Tale Heart"?
200
Simile
a comparison used to show additional meaning using "like" or "as"
200
plot
What is the sequence of events in a story?
200
context clues
to guess the meaning of new word by the words around it
200
transition words
words to show direction and flow of ideas
200
Algernon
What was the name of the mouse in Flowers for Algernon?
300
Symbol
an object that represemts something, such as a heart for love
300
speaker
What is the voice and author creates to tell a story?
300
skim read
To read quickly, and not every word
300
topic sentence
What is the main idea of a paragraph?
300
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech
"I Have a Dream"
400
Personification
when an object that is not a person behaves like a person
400
expository writing
Writing that explains or informs
400
predict
to make a guess about what will happen next
400
conclusion
The thesis is restated in the
400
conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
500
mood
the emotional feeling an author is intending to give
500
idiom
What is a phrase that has a non-translatable meaning
500
inference
making an assumption based on
500
attention grabber
the hook is an
500
blue suede shoes
In "Thank You, M'am, the thief wanted a pair of these