Thanksgiving
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- vivid language
- words that help you see, hear, smell, touch, and taste what the poet or author is describing
- turkey
- a type of meat from a bird killed for food
- suffix
- a group of letters added to the end of a word
- the Pilgrims
- a group of early European settlers who came from Europe to the Americas in the 1600s
- holiday
- a day to celebrate events or important people
- hunted
- killed for food
- pilgrim
- a religious person who travel a long way to the holy place
- nuts
- seeds with a hard shell around them
- feast
- a large meal
- watch out
- be careful
- atlas
- a book of maps
- poet
- a person who writes a poem
- wonderful
- very good, very pleasing
- pumpkin
- a big, orange fruit
- deer
- an animal with hooves that lives in forests
- cornbread
- a bread made from corn
- sneak
- do something so that other people cannot see you
- noun
- a part of speech that stands for a person, a place, or a thing
- Native Americans
- the people who lived in the Americas before Europeans and others came
- carves
- cuts into pieces or slices
- subject pronouns
- a part of speech that can be used in place of nouns that are subjects
- stuffed
- a feeling of being very full; filled very full of something
- plenty
- more than enough
- wishbone
- a bone in some birds that is shaped like a "Y". People play a game with it.
- pie
- a dessert with a crust and a sweet filling
- mental images
- pictures that you form in your mind
- prepared
- made
- pronoun
- a part of speech that takes the place of nouns
- rhythm
- a beat, like a drum sound in music
- rhyme
- a part of text structure in which words have the same ending sound
- gathered
- came together
- piecrust
- the outside pastry that holds the filling of a pie
- bake
- cook in an oven
- mood
- how someone feels
- gobble
- eat in a quick hungry way; the sound that a turkey makes
- cranberries
- small, red fruit
- stanzas
- groups of lines in a poem
- neighbors
- people who live close to one another