Lesson 6—EOG Vocabulary By: Mrs. Burton Reminder: Friday, March 28, 2008
Alliteration: the initial repetition of consonant sounds
Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds within words or syllables
Consonance: the repetition of two or more consonants with different vowel sounds in between. Example: Bill could play ball for the Bulls, but he badly wants to bowl!
End rhyme: the way to define the rhyme scheme Roses are red-----A Violets are blue---B Sugar is sweet----C And so are you!---B
Figurative language: language not meant to be taken literally. “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”
Hyperbole: exaggeration “Slicker than snot on a door knob!” snot
Image: vivid pictures that stick in the reader’s mind
line: what stanzas are made of, numbered Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses And all the King's men 5 Couldn't put Humpty together again! LINE
Metaphor: compares two things by saying (or suggesting) that one thing is another.
Onomatopoeia: the use of words that sound like what they signify.
Personification: giving inanimate objects human characteristics.
Rhyme: the way in which the author creates the “music” of a poem.
Rhythm: like the “beat” in a song
Speaker: the character who is “saying” the words of the poem.
Stanza: what poems are made of (paragraph) Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses And all the King's men 5 Couldn't put Humpty together again! STANZA
Structure: how the poem is “built”