EOG Vocab. Review Part 2

A literary device where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning sound.

• Analogy

• Alliteration

• Analyze

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A joke based on the interplay of homophones.

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Pun

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A set expression or a phrase comprising two or more words not meant to be taken literally.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Pun

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The use of over-exaggeration for the purpose of creating emphasis or being humorous, but is not intended to be taken literally.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison between two or more things NOT using like or as.

• Simile

• Idiom

• Analogy

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A literary device that creates a relationship based on parallels or connections between two ideas.

• Simile

• Comparison

• Analogy

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' mind.

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Nonfiction

• Fiction

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Not using a literal use of words; metaphorical.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Analogy

• Figurative

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.

• Reason

• Motivation

• Purpose

• Explanation

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C