| A | B |
|---|
| Personification | Giving an object human qualities |
| Hyperbole | Exxageration |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that sounds like the event or object it's describing |
| Metaphor | A comparison where one person or object is the other |
| Simile | A comparison using like or as |
| Alliteration | A sentence with words that begin with the same sounds |
| Analogy | two sets of words that have the same relationships |
| Antonyms | Words that have opposite meanings |
| Synonyms | Words that have the same meaning |
| homophones | two words that are spelled differently but sound the same and have the same meaning |
| Compound words | two words together, separated or hyphenated |
| Noun | person, place or thing |
| Common noun | an ordinary person, place or thing |
| Proper noun | A specific person, place or thing |
| Pronoun | a word that takes the place of noun |
| Adjective | A describing word |
| Idiom | an expression with a meaning different from the usual one |
| Action verb | a word that shows action/movement |
| state of being verb | am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, has, have, had |
| appositive | phrase set off by commas that can be removed from sentence |
| contractions | they're, we'll, don't |
| genres | types of writing |
