ELA Vocab Terms

4. to trick or to cheat
9. the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
11. literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style
12. serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one
14. the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
15. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic

1. of view a particular attitude or way of considering a matter
2. a figure of speech in a word or phrase
3. the most intense, exciting, or important point of something
5. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true
6. a firm decision to do or not to do something
7. a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.
8. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description
10. run away
13. the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language