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Hyperbole
I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!
A figure of speech using deliberate, extreme exaggeration to emphasize a point, evoke strong emotions, or create humor, which is not meant to be taken literally.
Alliteration
Big brown bears bounced bravely.
A literary and rhetorical device defined by the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
Personification
The wind whispered secrets through the trees.
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Connotation
Ostensibly neutral, each of these words has a positive connotation in the American political lexicon.
The emotional, cultural, or implied meanings associated with a word beyond its literal definition.
Verb
I ran to the store.
An action.
Noun
Did you know i am having chocolate cake for my birthday.
A person place or thing.
Adverb
He was running fast.
Something to describe a verb.
Adjective
The lazy cat slept on the sunny windowsill.
A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
Foreshadowing
His hand off was a foreshadowing of the Browns’ run game Sunday night.
To be warning.
Denotation
Note that there is a ‘left’ and a ‘right’ side denotation for the brackets.
The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Theme
A show on the theme of waste and recycling.
The underlying, central message or unifying idea in a literary work, film, or art.
Point of view.
The authors point of view was to persuade you to do hard things.
The perspective of a story.
Simile
The troll was as big as a mountain.
A figure of speech that directly compares two distinct, often unrelated things to create vivid imagery, using the connector words "as" or "like".
Metaphor
The boat was as big as a whale.
Describing something using like or as.
Affix
You can make the word dislike by adding dis.
Letters added after or before a word to create a new word.
Suffix
The word 'helpful' is formed by adding the suffix -ful to the root word 'help'.
A morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative, e.g., -ation, -fy, -ing, -itis.
Prefix
re-’ is a common prefix meaning ‘again’
A letter or group of letters attached to the beginning of a word to alter its meaning or create a new word.