Unit 4: Lessons 3–4

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 6, Unit 4, Lessons 3–4.
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  1. humor
    the quality of being funny
  2. purpose
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
  3. message
    what a communication that is about something is about
  4. infer
    solve by guessing
  5. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  6. voice
    expressing in coherent verbal form
  7. pronoun
    a function word that is used in place of a noun
  8. antecedent
    the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers
  9. personal pronoun
    a pronoun expressing a distinction of person
  10. relative pronoun
    a pronoun (as `that' or `which' or `who') that introduces a relative clause referring to some antecedent
  11. root
    the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  12. apology
    an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone
  13. history
    a record or narrative description of past events
  14. terror
    an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
  15. pause
    stop an action temporarily
  16. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  17. figurative
    not literal
  18. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  19. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  20. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
  21. inference
    a conclusion you can draw based on known evidence
  22. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  23. speaker
    the narrative voice of a poem (as distinct from the poet)
Created on Mon Sep 14 16:16:07 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Jun 18 09:31:59 EDT 2021)

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