Unit 5 6th Grade

a type of literature in which words are carefully chosen and arranged to create certain effects

• Poetry 
• Nonfiction
• Informational Text
• Fiction

words that are used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true

• Emotional Appeal
• Fictional Appeal
• Figurative Language
• Figurative Appeal

compares two unlike things using “like” or “as." Example: He is as tall as the Empire State Building.

• Imagery 
• Purpose
• Metaphor
• Simile

compares two unlike things not using “like” or “as.” Example: The classroom was a zoo.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Compare
• Contrast

giving human qualities to non-living objects. Example: The trees danced in the wind.

• Personification
• Emotional Appeal
• Imagery 
• Onomatopoeia 

words or phrases that appeal to our 5 senses (sight, touch, taste, smell, sound)

• Logic
• Imaginative Appeal
• Metaphor
• Imagery 

an exaggeration of the truth for emphasis or humor. Example: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

• Exaggeration
• Hyperbole
• Symbol
• Personification

a person, place, or object that stands for something else. Example: A Raven is a symbol of our school.

• Symbol
• Sound Device 
• Alliteration
• Metaphor

an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of the individual words

• Idiom

• Couplet

• Hyperbole

• Irony

a rhymed pair of lines that can be written in any rhythmic pattern

• Couplet

• Metaphor

• Stanza

• Rhyme