EOG Vocabulary

exaggeration

• hyperbole
• imagery
• onomatopeia
• key idea

imitates sounds

• imagery
• metaphor
• onomatopeia
• claim

main point of a text

• claim
• support
• key idea
• summary

language that creates a picture in your mind

• context clues
• alliteration
• idiom
• imagery

comparison using like or as

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• figurative language

The road was a ribbon of moonlight

• simile
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• alliteration

meaning found through other words in a sentence

• idiom
• personification
• claim
• context clues

strong belief or idea

• claim
• alliteration
• onomatopeia
• figurative language

idiom

• says one thing means another
• hyperbole
• support
• context clues

Sally sells seashells by the seashore

• alliteration
• personification
• key idea
• metaphor