Vocabulary Week 22

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• effect

A popular saying that is meant to express something wise or true

• proverb

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

A comparison without using like or as

• cause

• effect

• idiom

• metaphor

A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. like- (It is raining cats and dogs!)

• Idiom

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• cause

A change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause

• effect

• cause

• hyperbole

• personification

The reason why something happens

• onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• simile

• cause

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected words like- (Sally Sells Sea Shells)

• metaphor

• alliteration

• effect

• idiom

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• effect

the use of words that imitate sounds- (BOOM, SMASH)

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

• cause