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ELA Vocabulary

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    vocabulary words that we use to describe ELA terms
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  • What is a simile?
    compares 2 things using like or as EXAMPLE: They fought like cats and dogs.
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  • What is a metaphor?
    compares 2 things without using like or as EXAMPLE: The snow is a white blanket.
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  • What is Hyperbole?
    an extreme exaggeration. EXAMPLE: I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
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  • What is Alliteration?
    a same sound sentence EXAMPLE: Sheep should shower in a shed.
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  • What is personification?
    gives something nonhuman, human characteristics EXAMPLE: Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast can talk.
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  • What is an Idiom?
    a figure of speech, doesn't mean what is actually said EXAMPLE: cool as a cucumber means calm
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  • Stanza
    Group of lines in a poem
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  • What is a Heading?
    a title of a section of text
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  • What is a caption?
    words that explain what is happening in the picture.
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  • What is a diagram?
    a picture used to explain a concept or idea
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