SBAC ELA Vocabulary

A stop or pause in a line of poetry

• stanza

• caesura

• imagery

• simile

The main message or overall idea expressed by the poem/book

• metaphor

• simile

• theme

• none of the above

Which is an example of a hyperbole?

• I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!

• The wind howled in the night.

• She was quiet as a mouse.

• BOOM!

A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines

• paragraph

• stanza

• block

"Sandy says Spongebob has the suds" is an example of...

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Describing one thing as if it were another

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

• allegory

"He's fast as lightening" is an example of...

• metaphor

• connotation

• hyperbole

• simile

"Jellyfish Fields smelled of fresh coral and was blanketed in bright green grass" is an example of...

• personification

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is given human characteristics

• irony

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

The use of words or phrases whose sounds suggest their meanings. (Ex: "squeak")

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole