ELA FAST Vocabulary

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Giving human qualities/behaviors to non-human things.

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Personification

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A 19-line poem with recurring refrains that create depth, rhythm, and emphasis.

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Villanelle

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The organizational pattern chosen to convey the central ideas of an informational text, such as cause & effect, compare & contrast, chronological order, etc.

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Text Structure

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The way an author chooses to arrange words, form sentences, and use grammar.

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Syntax

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Information you cite from another source to support and strengthen a claim, reason, or inference.

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Evidence

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A type of poetry that expresses personal feelings and thoughts, often in a musical style.

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Lyric Poetry

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A poem that uses the first letters of each line to spell out a word or message.

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Acrostic Poem

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The main idea or argument that an author is trying to convey in a piece of writing.

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Thesis

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The use of descriptive language to create vivid images in the reader's mind.

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Imagery

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A comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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Simile