| A | B |
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| Personification | Giving H=human like qualaties to inanimate objects. The stars danced in the night sky. |
| Synonym | Words that have the same or similar meaning. |
| Antonym | words that have the opposite meaning |
| Context Clues | using the words around the unknown words to infer or draw out the meaning of the unknown word. |
| Noun | A Person Place or Thing |
| Idiom | A Figure of Speech. Its raining cats and dogs. Dont throw her under the Bus. |
| Multiple Meaning Words | Words that have multiple meanings. Such as Right or Fair. |
| Inferences | Educated guess based on what you know or infer. Similar to a predicition. |
| Adverb | Describes a verb. Quickly, Silently, Well, Badly |
| Pronoun | Replaces a noun I, you, he, she, some. |
| Preposition | A words that show location. |
| Conjunction | Join clauses or sentences or words. Words: and,but,or,yet,so. |
| Adjectives | Describe a Noun. good, big,red,interesting. |
| Homophones | A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, and may differ in spelling. Flower and R.ose |
| Homonyms | are words that sound like one another but have different meanings. Scale, Fair. |
| Uno | The game we play where you have to match the color or number and get rid of all of your cards. |
| Replace the Word | This is the strategy that we use to figure out unknown words. Context Clues. |
| Main Idea | What the story is about in one sentence. |
| Summary | What the story is about in a couple of sentences. Focuses on the main point and main idea. |
| F.A.N.B.O.Y.S. | Acronym for all of the Conjunctions. |
| Similie | comparing two things using Like or As. As small as a ladybug. |
| Metaphor | comparing two things without using like or as. My brother was boiling mad. |
| Alliteration | Repeating the same sound over and over again. Peter Piper Picked A Apeck of Pickled Peppers |
| Hyperbole | An Exaggeration. "This backpack weighs a ton". |
| Onomatopeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ). |
