Week 31 STAAR Vocabulary Practice

language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors

• imagery

• repetition

• figurative language

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

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• simile

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

• imagery

• simile

• idiom

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

• personification

• collective noun

• hyperbole

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

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

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

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

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

• contrast

• dialogue

• collective noun

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

• idiom

• personification

• simile