ELA Vocabulary

compares 2 things using like or as EXAMPLE: They fought like cats and dogs.

words that explain what is happening in the picture.

Group of lines in a poem

a same sound sentence EXAMPLE: Sheep should shower in a shed.

compares 2 things without using like or as EXAMPLE: The snow is a white blanket.

a picture used to explain a concept or idea

a figure of speech, doesn't mean what is actually said EXAMPLE: cool as a cucumber means calm

gives something nonhuman, human characteristics EXAMPLE: Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast can talk.

an extreme exaggeration. EXAMPLE: I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.

a title of a section of text