7th ELA FAST Vocabulary

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Imagery

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Detailed words and phrases that engage a reader’s five senses.

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Hasty Generalization

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Making a general statement or conclusion without sufficient evidence.

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Figurative Language

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Words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true but express a complex meaning.

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Tone

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The writer or narrator’s attitude toward their subject (formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, cheerful, etc.).

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Personification

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Giving human qualities/behaviors to non-human things.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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Simile

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.

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Narrator

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The person or character who tells the story.