Academic Vocabulary 4, 5, 7

words or expressions that mean something else

• Figurative Language

• Sound Devices

• text structure

• Word Choice

comparison between two things using the words like or as

• hyperbole

• understatement

• simile

• metaphor

comparison between two things that does NOT use the words like or as

• alliteration

• simile

• assonance

• metaphor

exaggeration that is not taken seriously or literally

• hyperbole

• understatement

• personification

• idiom

making the issue seem less important or severe than it really is

• understatement

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

giving human characteristics to something non-human

• idiom

• irony

• personification

• rhyme

an expression that the meaning has nothing to do with the phrase

• figurative language

• idiom

• irony

• imagery

blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response

• assonance

• alliteration

• figurative language

• sound devices

the same consonant or sound at the beginning of a word being repeated

• assonance

• sound devices

• repetition

• alliteration

the same vowel sound being repeated

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• assonance

• personification