English Terms

The words AND, BUT, YET, SO are called 

• conjunctions
• prepositions
• adjectives
• adverbs

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CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.
• My heart is a muscle.
• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.
• My heart is like a muscle.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Vivid description of sensory details

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Alliteration

• Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant
• A central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
• The repetition of initial consonant sounds
• The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage   Writing in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or drama that tells a story

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Personification

• The general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, or expectation and result.
• The repetition of initial consonant sounds
• The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader
• A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Which of the following is an example of imagery?

• A bluebird

• She ran like the wind

• The wind brushed against her arm, sending goosebumps across her skin and making her give an involuntary shudder

• Red

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The voice that tells a story

• speaker

• narrator

• author

• protagonist

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Identify the personification

• The moon looked like a man's face

• The flowers danced in the breeze

• The man's laugh sounded like a dog barking

• The last piece of pie is calling my name

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door

• once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

• the church cat leaped through the window

• feet sweep by sleeping geese

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following is NOT a simile?

• Her hair shone like the sun.

• Her hair was as golden as the sun.

• Her hair was the sun.

• Her hair was more radiant than the sun.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D