Week 21 Vocabulary Test

literal language

• can be read and understood if you know the meaning of the words. Ex.: The sun is bright.

• words that create interesting images using language that has a deeper meaning than the actual meaning of the words

• details in a story or poem that include the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling

• a figure of speech in which two things are compared using the words like or as Ex:  Ms. Wallace runs like a cheetah!   Ms. McMullen is as slow as a turtle!

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

figurative language

• can be read and understood if you know the meaning of the words. Ex.: The sun is bright.

• words that create interesting images using language that has a deeper meaning than the actual meaning of the words

• details in a story or poem that include the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling

• a figure of speech in which two things are compared using the words like or as Ex:  Ms. Wallace runs like a cheetah!   Ms. McMullen is as slow as a turtle!

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

sensory details

• can be read and understood if you know the meaning of the words. Ex.: The sun is bright.

• words that create interesting images using language that has a deeper meaning than the actual meaning of the words

• details in a story or poem that include the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling

• a figure of speech in which two things are compared using the words like or as Ex:  Ms. Wallace runs like a cheetah!   Ms. McMullen is as slow as a turtle!

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

simile

• can be read and understood if you know the meaning of the words. Ex.: The sun is bright.

• words that create interesting images using language that has a deeper meaning than the actual meaning of the words

• details in a story or poem that include the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling

• a figure of speech in which two things are compared using the words like or as Ex:  Ms. Wallace runs like a cheetah!   Ms. McMullen is as slow as a turtle!

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

a figure of speech in which two things are compared, BUT DO NOT USE THE WORDS LIKE OR AS. It says exactly what it wants to say.

Ex:  You light up my life! This means, you make my life better and joyful!

• metaphor

• PERSONification

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a description of an object or animal that has HUMAN characteristics Ex. The stars are winking and smiling at us.

• metaphor

• PERSONification

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

the repetition of the first consonant letter (or sound) of each word in a sentence or phrase. Ex. Voracious volcanoes vibrated the valley very violently. Caution: the letters do NOT always have to be the same as long as they have the same beginning consonant sound. i.e.: city sidewalks

• metaphor

• PERSONification

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a word that originates from a sound. Ex. Splat! Splash! Honk!

• metaphor

• PERSONification

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a figure of speech that includes an exaggeration which couldn’t possibly happen in real life. Ex. I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.

• hyperbole

• sound devices

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Sound Devices- create rhythm within a literary text Ex. The sun is bright but not at night.  

• hyperbole

• sound devices

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.3.4