ELA Vocab!!

Repetition of an initial consonant sound

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Comparison of 2 unlike things that have something in common; does not use like or as

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Words that make sounds

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Figure of speech in which opposite terms appear side by side

• Symbol

• Idiom

• Quatrain

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A play on words

• Symbol

• Pun

• Theme

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Words used to stimulate the 5 senses

• Simile

• Imagery

• Idiom

• Line

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A thing that stands for or represents something else

• Imagery

• Idiom

• Symbol

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

An expression that does not relate to the literal meaning of the words

• Allusion

• Stanza

• Idiom

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4