Language Vocabulary Words

figure of speech equating two things, Ex: My grandfather is my rock.

a name used for an individual person, place or thing, spelled with initial capital letters

a five-line humorous poem

an adversary or opponent in a story

is the relationship between events or things, where one is the result of the other or others

a true life story written by and about the author

a letter or group of letters put at the end of a word to change the word's meaning

the exact words spoken by two or more people

the use of words that imitate sounds; Ex: pow, bam and ding

a pair of successive rhyming lines of verse

a five line stanza poem

a phrase where most words begin with the same sound

a figure of speech in which an idea, object or animal is given qualities of a human

the words used by an author to tell how the narrator is feeling; Ex: rage, slammed and demanded

The important parts of the story, including characters, setting, plot, problem and resolution

the way language is organized

a imagined situation or thing that is not real; a type of genre

a letter or group of letters placed at the beginning of word to change the word's meaning

a short narrative poem traditionally sung

a form of speech that is used to express criticism or annoyance

words or phrases that surround a word to help you understand the word

the overall emotion created by the author's use of the setting, characters and plot

one of the main characters in a drama who is usually the hero

a word that modifies or describes a verb by generally telling how, when or where

a comparison statement that uses like or as