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inheritance
A word that means things someone passes on when they die.
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Ouch! It's burning me!
Ouch It's burning me!
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have
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A sentence made up of two independent clauses, usually linked by a conjunction.
compound sentence
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imagery
visually descriptive language
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sapling
A word that means a young tree.
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I didn't feel well yesterday, and today isn't much better.
I didn't feel well yesterday and today isn't much better.
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project
I finished my project yesterday.
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pronoun
acts as a substitute for a noun: he, she, it...
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stanza
a section of a poem broken apart (like a paragraph)
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vernal
A word that means spring (like the equinox)!
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Then Sarah replied, "I don't want to go to the store."
Then Sarah replied I don't want to go to the store.
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terrific
This game is terrific!
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a word expressing relation to another word: who, what, where, when
preposition
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foreshadowing
giving hints to events to come
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noble
A word that means a person with high principles or of high rank in birth.
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Well, I love apples, bananas, mangoes, and berries, but not oranges.
Well, I love apples bananas mangoes and berries, but not oranges.
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gracefully
She plays so gracefully.
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declarative
This kind of sentence tells you something and ends in a period.
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personification
giving human traits to animals or inanimate objects
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hastily
A word that means to do something in a hurry.
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That little corner is the kittens' sleeping spot, they love to get cozy there.
That little corner is the kittens sleeping spot, they love to get cozy there.
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is
That is so great!
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appositive
a noun or pronoun, with modifies, set beside another noun to explain or identify it: Jeff, my neighbor, gave me some peaches.
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metaphor
making a direct comparison between two normally unrelated things
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