A group of words arranged into a row.
Line
Comparing using like or as.
Simile
What is the adjective?
The heavy snow fell quickly.
heavy
She needed to dust the table.
What does dust mean?
A. a thin layer of dirt
B. to remove a thin layer of dirt.
B. to remove a thin layer of dirt.
“Blitz and blocking, bump –and-run
Drive and drop kick, the other team’s done
End zone, end line, ebb and flow
Snap, sack, scrambling, I love it so
Football is fun and fabulous too
Let’s go to the stadium, just me and you.”
Alliteration
Words at the end of lines that have the same ending sounds.
Rhyme
When the first letter of words repeats.
Alliteration
What is the adjective?
She had never seen a dog that was so fluffy.
fluffy
Which word means a metal or plastic thing that you hang clothing on?
A. Hanger
B. Hangar
A. Hanger
“Piddle-paddle, piddle-paddle, splash, splash, splash
Into the pool with a great big dash!”
Onomatopoeia
A group of lines.
Stanza
Extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
What is the adverb?
He ran quickly past his mother into his room.
quickly
She wanted to be a pilot, but first she needed to learn how to fly.
What does fly mean?
A. To soar through the sky.
B. An insect.
A. To soar through the sky.
You're the apple of my eye,
The wisdom of my tooth.
You're the shot heard 'round the world
And that's the honest truth!
metaphor
The beat or flow of a poem.
rhythm
When a non-human is given human characteristics.
Personification
What is the adverb?
He was openly sharing about his fear.
openly
Which word is correct?
She had ________ sisters.
A. two
B. too
A. two
"Hey diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon."
personification
When a poem has rhyming words within one line.
Internal rhyme
Idiom
Which is correct? nice, nicer or nicest
She was the ___________ in the school.
nicest
What is another word for multi-meaning words
Homographs, Homophones, or Homonyms
Raking leaves is hard,
but when if you use a rake,
then the job of raking leaves
becomes a piece of cake.
Idiom