Midterm Vocabulary - 12th

big idea explored in a work of literature or poetry; moral of the story

• theme
• simile
• symbolism
• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

 imaginative language not meant to be taken literally

• figurative language
• allegory
• allusion
• apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

a story or poem where the events and characters represent bigger abstract ideas like a moral, religious, or political event or idea

• allegory
• irony
• oxymoron
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

repetition of words, phrases, images, objects, ideas, and actions in literature

• motif
• simile
• euphemism
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

when something (object, animal, event, person, place, etc.) in a story represents itself but also stands for a bigger idea

• symbolism
• simile
• apostrophe
• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

saying one thing is something else to show how they’re similar; if it’s carried out for more than a sentence, it’s called a conceit

• metaphor
• pun
• theme
• paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

comparing two different things using the words like, as, or than to show how they’re similar

• simile
• oxymoron
• setting
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

when an object, animal, or idea is given human attributes/characteristics

• personification
• apostrophe
• theme
• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person or thing were there

• apostrophe
• oxymoron
• characterization
• paradox

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole
• euphemism
• irony
• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A