1. Key Academic Vocabulary
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Key Academic
Vocabulary

2. Sentence Structure

3. paying attention to what you hear
listening
paying attention to what you hear

4. sensory language/ imagery
The descriptive language an author uses to create word pictures for the reader.
Sensory words are descriptions of the five senses – sight, sound, touch, smell and taste.

5. figurative language
language layered with meaning by word images and figures of speech, as opposed to literal language

6. personification
figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
Example: The leaves danced in the wind.

7. simile
a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as
Example: He is as happy as a clam.

8. metaphor
a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally
Example: The streets were a furnace under the hot sun.

9. Hyperbole is an exaggeration or overstatement for effect.
Example: I had so much homework, I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home.

10. symbol
A concrete thing such as a person, place, or object—that stands for something more than just itself.
For example:
A heart symbolizes ____________
A dove symbolizes ____________

11. idiom
an expression that has a different meaning from the literal meaning of its individual words; cannot be translated literally
Example: The TAKS test was a piece of cake.

12. adages
a short but memorable saying that holds some important fact that is considered true by many people
Example: Don’t judge a book by its cover.

13. Devices of Sound

14. Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate sounds.
Example: sizzle, hiss, bang, boom

15. Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words.
Example: She sells sea shells by the seashore.

16. Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds
And in the air the fireflies, Our only light in paradise
Example:

17. Similar to alliteration except:
Consonance
Similar to alliteration except:
in consonance the repetition of the consonant sound can be anywhere in the word
Example:
“silken, sad, uncertain, rustling”

18. poetry
Poetry is written in sets of lines. Often poems have rhythm and rhyme. The writer may want to express feelings about something, describe something, or simply entertain readers.
*Types of poetry include: narrative, humorous, lyrical and free verse

19. stanza
A stanza is a unit within a larger poem. A stanza consists of a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme.

20. A couplet is a poem made of two lines whose last words rhyme.
Stanzas can be given a specific name depending on their structure and rhyme pattern.
A couplet is a poem made of two lines whose last words rhyme.
Example: The cat ate a mouse, then brought it to the house.

21. rhyme
words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds
Examples: Mop up that slop!!

22. the pattern of rhyming lines
rhyme scheme
the pattern of rhyming lines
Example: ABAB, ABBA, etc…

23. meter
the basic rhythmic structure in verse, made up of stressed and unstressed syllables

24. capital letters, line length…; also called shape of the poem
graphical elements
capital letters, line length…; also called shape of the poem

25. A soothing song, usually sung to children before they go to sleep
llullaby
A soothing song, usually sung to children before they go to sleep