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Unit 5: Infrences
Key terms from Unit 5
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English
9th Grade
11/15/2012

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Motive
Definition
Causes someone to take a certain action.
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Adjectives
Definition
Words that tell about the five senses.
They describe nouns.
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Nouns
Definition
Names a person, place, thing, animal, or idea.
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Verbs
Definition
Tells an action or a state of being.
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Figurative Language
Definition
Exaggerates the meaning of something.
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
Words that look like their sounds
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Alliteration
Definition
Repetition of the first sound in words
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Context Clues
Definition
Use these when you don't know the meaning of a word.
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Pronouns
Definition
Take the place of nouns.
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Singular Pronouns
Definition
I, she, he, it, me, you, her, him
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Plural Pronouns
Definition
We, you, they, us, them
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Homophones
Definition
Words that sound alike, but are not spelled the same
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Homographs
Definition
Words that are spelled alike, but have different meanings
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"Graph"
Definition
Means to write
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"Phone"
Definition
Means sound
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Subject
Definition
Tells who or what the sentence is about.
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Predicate
Definition
Tells what the subject is or does.
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Subject pronoun
Definition
Takes the place of a noun in the subject.
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