Final Vocabulary Review - 7/8 grade

Identify the simile

• I like apples.
• Apples taste sweet.
• You're the apple of my eye.
• This apple is as sweet as candy.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Simile or Metaphor:
My life is a dream.

• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes
• compares two unlike things using the words like or as
• compares two similar things 
• tells what a person is doing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events.

• Waiting
• Conflict
• Suspense
• Anxiety

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is metaphor?

• a comparison that is not directly stated, but the two things being compared are understood
• word choice
• comparison between two different things using like or as
• use of hints and clues in a narrative to suggest a future action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is simile?

• the dictionary definition of a word
• comparison between two different things using like or as
• use of hints and clues in a narrative to suggest a future action
• a comparison that is not directly stated, but the two things being compared are understood

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is foreshadow?

• language that is not mean to be literally, but meant to add richness and color to literature
• an exaggeration
• use of hints and clues in a narrative to suggest a future action
• the dictionary meaning of a word

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The following is an example of what type of literary device: a fire station catches on fire and burns to the ground.  

• Verbal Irony
• Simile
• Imagery
• Situational Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Choose the correct term for the following definition: occurs when we say one thing and mean something else.

• Verbal Irony
• Dramatic Irony
• Situational Irony
• Dialect

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A