SBAC ELA Vocabulary

A stop or pause in a line of poetry

• stanza

• caesura

• imagery

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The main message or overall idea expressed by the poem/book

• metaphor

• simile

• theme

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which is an example of a hyperbole?

• I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!

• The wind howled in the night.

• She was quiet as a mouse.

• BOOM!

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines

• paragraph

• stanza

• block

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

"Sandy says Spongebob has the suds" is an example of...

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Describing one thing as if it were another

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

• allegory

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"He's fast as lightening" is an example of...

• metaphor

• connotation

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Jellyfish Fields smelled of fresh coral and was blanketed in bright green grass" is an example of...

• personification

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is given human characteristics

• irony

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The use of words or phrases whose sounds suggest their meanings. (Ex: "squeak")

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5