| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Denotation | The country south of Canada and North of Mexico. The actual or dictionary, meaning of a word. |
| Connotation | America: Freedom, opportunity, individualism. The implied meaning of a word |
| Synonym | Grumpy/Grouchy; Cold/Freezing; A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word. |
| Antonym | Good/Bad; Happy/Sad; Hot/Cold; A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word |
| Homonym | There, Their, and They're; Maid and Made ; To, Two, and Too; Words that sound alike but have different meanings and/or spellings. |
| Homophone | Cent/Scent/Sent; Eye and I; Words that sound alike but not with the same meaning. |
| Symbol | Flag=America; A Heart=Love |
| Metaphor | A blanket of snow. |
| Simile | Her hands were like frozen ice cubes. I'm as big as a barn. |
| Hyperbole | My book bag weighs a ton. |
| Onomatopoeia | Her boots crunched across the snowy field. |
| Personification | Dancing pink elephants |
| Alliteration | How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood? |
| Assonance | Lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day. |
| Consonance | Very soft is his skin. |
| Idiom | The apple of my eye. Don't let the cat out of the bag. |
| Oxymoron | Good grief; jumbo shrimp. |
| Allusion | He is such a scrooge; Don't be such an Einstein. |
| Ironic | You study all night for a test and end up failing it. |
| Antithesis | Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. |
| Metonymy | "The pen is mightier than the sword," ; "He is a man of the cloth"; A figure of speech in which one word or meaning is used to stand for another associated word or meaning. |
| Archetype | Disney movies |
| Euphemism | Toilet = Restroom, lavatory, washroom, john, etc. |
| Apostrophe | Blow, blow, thou winter wind... |
| Paradox | The wisest mind has something yet to learn. |
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