PSSA Terms (Set 2)

The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in neighboring words?

• simile

• rhyme

• poem

• alliteration

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• figurative language

Two or more words that have a similar meaning?

• synonym

• personification

• antonym

• alliteration

A word that is the opposite of another word?

• idiom

• soliloquy

• sonnet

• antonym

An exaggeration or overstatement?

• alliteration

• figurative language

• hyperbole

• metaphor

A group of lines in a poem?

• stanza

• idiom

• poem

• sonnet

Word combinations that have different meanings than the actual meaning for the words (ex. raining cats and dogs)

• rhyme

• poem

• multiple meaning words

• idiom

A type of text that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader through the use of stanzas, imagery, and figurative language?

• poem

• rhyme

• sonnet

• alliteration

The repetition of identical or similar sounds in a poem or literary work?

• metaphor

• synonym

• rhyme

• soliloquy

Words that have different meanings depending upon how they are used in a sentence?

• idiom

• multiple meaning words

• stanza

• poem