F.A.S.T. ELA Vocabulary

What is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words near each other?

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Rhyme

Words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true but express a complex meaning.

(a)  

• Figurative Language
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Hyperboles

Detailed words and phrases that engage a reader's five senses.

(a)  

• Imagery
• Personification
• Mood
• Alliteration

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (a)   refers to the perspective a writer chooses to narrate a story

• Point of View
• Alliteration
• narrator
• Narrator

A group of two or more lines in a poem.

• Rhyme

• Stanza

• Meter

• Refrain

The writer or narrator's attitude toward their subject (formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, cheerful, etc.)

• Genre

• Setting

• Tone

• Plot

A comparison of two very different things without using "like" or "as".

(a)  

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Analogy
• Hyperbole

The voice that tells a story, which varies in reliability.

• Author

• Character

• Plot

• Narrator

The structure or arrangement of lines, stanzas, and sounds in a poem, designed to reflect topics in the poem.

• Poetic Meter

• Poetic Form

• Poetic Theme

• Poetic Rhyme

When a poem does not follow any particular rhyme scheme or meter.

• Free Verse

• Haiku

• Limerick

• Sonnet