L.A. STUDY GUIDE ANSWERS
GRADE 7
FIGURES OF SPEECH
• ALLITERATION: THE OCCURRENCE OF THE SAME LETTER OR SOUND AT THE BEGINNING OF
CONNECTED WORDS.
• EXAMPLE:
OXYMORON
• APPARENTLY CONTRADICTORY TERMS APPEAR TOGETHER
• EXAMPLE: JUMBO SHRIMP, ACT NATURALLY
HYPERBOLE
• ITS AN EXAGGERATION
IDIOM
• AN EXPRESSION WHOSE MEANING IS NOT PREDICTABLE FROM THE USUAL MEANINGS OF ITS
WORDS
• EXAMPLE
METAPHOR
• A COMPARISON OF TWO THINGS.
• EXAMPLE “ LIFE IS A ROLLERCOASTER OF EMOTIONS
ONOMATOPOEIA
THE FORMATION OF A WORD, AS CUCKOO, MEOW,
HONK, OR BOOM, BY IMITATION OF A SOUND
PERSONIFICATION
• TO GIVE SOMETHING UNHUMAN HUMAN QUALITIES
SIMILE
• COMPARISON USING LIKE OR AS
SYNECDOCHE
• A FIGURE OF SPEECH IN WHICH A PART IS MADE TO REPRESENT THE WHOLE
ALLUSION
• A REFERENCE TO SOMETHING OUTSIDE OF THE TEXT.
IMAGERY
• VISUALLY DESCRIPTIVE OR FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, ESPECIALLY IN A LITERARY WORK.
STANZA
• A GROUP OF LINES FORMING THE BASIC RECURRING SOUNDS IN A POEM
SYNONYMS
• A WORD OR PHRASE THAT MEANS EXACTLY OR NEARLY THE SAME AS ANOTHER WORD OR
PHRASE
• EXAMPLE, BIG AND LARGE
ANTONYMS
• A WORD OPPOSITE IN MEANING TO ANOTHER
HOMONYMS
• WORDS THAT ARE PRONOUNCED THE SAME BUT HAVE DIFFERENT MEANINGS
SECOND PERSON NARRATION
“YOU WALK THROUGH THE DOOR, YOU SEE A CAT SITTING ON THE
LEDGE… “