5th Grade Vocabulary Flashcard

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What is a 'line break'?

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Where a line of a poem ends.

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What does 'symbol' mean?

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Something that stands for something else.

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What is a 'stanza'?

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A group of lines in a poem.

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What are 'context clues'?

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Hints in the text to figure out what a word means.

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What does it mean to 'organize'?

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To arrange in order.

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What is a 'metaphor'?

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A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is 'personification'?

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Giving human traits to non-human things.

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What does 'theme' refer to in literature?

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The central idea or message in a story.

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What is a 'narrative'?

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A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

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What does 'genre' mean?

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A category of literature characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.