Language Arts
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DawnRobinson on September 8, 2012
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Personification | a form of figurative language in which an idea, object, or animal is given human characteristics |
| Repetition | the repeating of a word or a phrase to emphasize an idea, or to add rhythm - it is especially used in poetry, but is very effective in any writing |
| Prefix | a syllable that is added at the beginning of a word |
| Suffix | a syllable that is added to the end of a word |
| Point of view | the angle from which a story is told |
| First-person point of view | when the story is being told by one of the characters in the story |
| Third-person point of view | when the story is being told by someone outside of the story - such as a narrator |
| Simile | compares two different things using the words like or as |
| Irony | a figure of speech in which the outcome of events is the opposite of what might have been expected |
| Synonym | Words that have similar or the same meaning |
| Declarative Sentence | Tells us something about a person, place or thing |
| Interrogative Sentence | Asks a question |
| Imperative Sentence | Gives a command |
| Exclamatory | Shows strong emotion or surprise |
| Homonym | two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings |
| Homophone | two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear) |
| Homograph | two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair) |
| Metaphor | a comparison without using like or as |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like what they mean |
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