CScope

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CScope

• Key Academic
• Vocabulary

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Sentence Structure
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listening

• paying attention to what you hear

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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.

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figurative language

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

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personification

• figurative language in which a nonhuman subject
  is given human characteristics

Example The leaves danced in the wind.
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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.
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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.
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Hyperbole

• 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.
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symbol

• A concrete thing such as a person, place, or
  objectthat stands for something more than just
  itself.
• For example
• A heart symbolizes ____________
• A dove symbolizes ____________

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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.
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adages

• a short but memorable saying that holds some
  important fact that is considered true by many
  people

Example Dont judge a book by its cover.
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Devices of Sound
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Onomatopoeia

• Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate
  sounds.

Example sizzle, hiss, bang, boom
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Alliteration

• Alliteration is the repetition of initial
  consonant sounds in words.

Example She sells sea shells by the seashore.
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Assonance

• Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel
  sounds

And in the air the fireflies,Our only light in
paradise
Example
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Consonance

• Similar to alliteration except
• in consonance the repetition of the consonant
  sound can be anywhere in the word

Example
silken, sad, uncertain, rustling
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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
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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.

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couplet

• 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.
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rhyme

• words that sound alike because they share the
  same ending vowel and consonant sounds
• Examples Mop up that slop!!

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rhyme scheme

• the pattern of rhyming lines

Example ABAB, ABBA, etc
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meter

• the basic rhythmic structure in verse, made up of
  stressed and unstressed syllables

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graphical elements

• capital letters, line length also called shape
  of the poem

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llullaby

• A soothing song, usually sung to children before
  they go to sleep