3rd 6 Weeks Vocabulary Review

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What does it mean to analyze?

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Take a close look at something to understand it.

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What is personification?

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Making something that is not alive act like a person.

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Which is a dependent clause?

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Because I was late.

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What do subordinating conjunctions do?

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Start a part of a sentence that cannot stand alone.

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What is an inference?

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A guess based on clues and what you know.

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What is a simile?

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Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as.'

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that describes one thing as if it were another.

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What is a compound sentence?

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A sentence that has at least two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.

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What is a theme in literature?

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The main idea or underlying message in a story.

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What is a summary?

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A brief statement that gives the main points of a text.