Common Core Key Vocabulary 8th Grade

Mrs. C (United States of America)
ELA Common Core Key Vocabulary
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  1. active voice
    when the subject of a sentence performs the action
  2. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  3. analogy
    drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity
  4. argument
    a discussion for and against some proposition or proposal
  5. audience
    the part of the general public interested in something
  6. cite
    make reference to
  7. claim
    an assertion that something is true or factual
  8. clause
    an expression including a subject and predicate
  9. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  10. credible
    capable of being believed
  11. delineate
    represented accurately or precisely
  12. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  13. figurative
    not literal
  14. genre
    a style of expressing yourself in writing
  15. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  16. infer
    conclude by reasoning
  17. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  18. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  19. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  20. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
  21. plagiarism
    taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
Created on Fri Oct 11 17:19:13 EDT 2013

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