What is Your Daily Academic Vocab?
By: Anjali Balaganesh
What Are Your Vocabulary Words and What Do They Mean?
- Alliteration- The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound. Generally are found to be tongue twisters.
- Allusion- A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing.
- Assonance- The repetition of accented vowels in a series or words.
- Consonance- The repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect.
- Details- The facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose.
- Figures of Speech- Words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else; Generally used in poetry and is not to be taken literally.
- Diction- Word choice intended to convey a certain effect.
- Flashback- A scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event.
- Hyperbole- A deliberate, extravagant, outrageous exaggeration
- Foreshadowing- The use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action.
What are Some Examples for Your Daily Academic Words from the Novels, The Westing Game and Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief?
- Alliteration- "'Ow!' Turtle screamed before the probe touched tooth."
- Figures of Speech (Metaphor/Personification)- "'That's enough of your smart mouth!"
- Assonance- "Good Hood From Spacious Grace King Queen Purple Waves On (No) Grains Mountain (Empty)"
- Foreshadowing- "'Get away!' Angela cried." (You can infer that something bad is going to happen.)
- Hyperbole- "My knees were jelly." (Your knees cannot be jelly.)
- Flashback- "During third grade, a man in a black trench coat had stalked me on the playground."
- Details- " We passed through the golden hills and over the Mississippi River into St. Louis." (The sentence shows, illustrates, and describes what they passed through, clearly and well.)
Alliteration
Alliteration
Assonance
Assonance
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing
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