1. Lesson 6—EOG Vocabulary
By: Mrs. Burton
Reminder: Friday, March 28, 2008

2. Alliteration: the initial repetition of consonant sounds

3. Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds within words or syllables

4. 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!

5. 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

6. Figurative language: language not meant to be taken literally.
“I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”

7. Hyperbole: exaggeration
“Slicker than snot on a door knob!”
snot

8. Image: vivid pictures that stick in the reader’s mind

9. 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

10. Metaphor: compares two things by saying (or suggesting) that one thing is another.

11. Onomatopoeia: the use of words that sound like what they signify.

12. Personification: giving inanimate objects human characteristics.

13. Rhyme: the way in which the author creates the “music” of a poem.

14. Rhythm: like the “beat” in a song

15. Speaker: the character who is “saying” the words of the poem.

16. 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

17. Structure: how the poem is “built”