Week 31 STAAR Vocabulary Practice

language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors

• imagery

• repetition

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

a figure of speech which makes a comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

a figure of speech which makes a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things

• imagery

• simile

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

extreme exaggeration in language "The test took a million years to finish."

• personification

• collective noun

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

the use of words that imitate sounds - "boom" "zip" "clap" "boing"

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a phrase that has a figurative meaning - not literal.

"A taste of your own medicine" = Getting treated the way you have been treating other people (negative).

"It is raining cats and dogs" = Very heavy, intense rain.

• imagery

• idiom

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

the repeating use of the same letter or sound in a story or a poem - "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis - "over and over and over again" "time after time"

• contrast

• dialogue

• collective noun

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the giving of human qualities to a non-human thing -(animal, object, or idea) "The wind whispered in my ear..."

• idiom

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A