Specific Language

Definition:
The repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of words.

• Alliteration
• Symbol
• Assonance
• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition:
The use of words that imitate sounds.

• Simile
• Imagery
• Onomatopoeia 
• Repetition 

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition:
Gives human qualities to something that is not human.

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Definition: 
The use of any element of language - a sound, word, phrase or sentence - more than once.

• Repetition
• Rhythm
• Rhyme
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition:
Language that appeals to the five senses---touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight.

• Imagery 
• Simile 
• Symbol
• Onomatopoeia 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Definition:
Figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect.

• Hyperbole
• Repetition
• Alliteration
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition:
Describes one thing as if it were something else.

• Metaphor 
• Simile
• Assonance
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition:
Use like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things.

• Imagery
• Simile
• Assonance
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What type of Language Device has been used?
The gentle giant jumped in jubilation.

• Imagery
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of Language Device has been used?
The buzzing bee flew away.

• Imagery 
• Consonance
• Rhyme
• Onomatopoeia 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4