Literary Terms

writing in which an inanimate object or an abstract idea is given human characteristics

• personification

• metaphor

• setting

• theme

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

writing that compares to unlike things but does not use like or as

• metaphor
• alliteration
• resolution
• character development

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

when the same sound is repeated in two or more neighboring words

• simile
• point of view
• alliteration
• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

the rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• conflict
• meter
• description
• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

What is consonance?

• The repetition of any letter sound in a line
• The repetition of consonant sounds in a line
• The repetition of vowel sounds in a line
• The repetition of words or phrases in a poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

She dances like a chicken on hot coals. 

• Synedoche
• Simile
• Paradox
• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I've told you to clean your room a million times.

• Euphemism
• Analogy
• Hyperbole
• Alliterati

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

I awoke to the smell of burnt coffee and could hear bacon sizziling in the frying pan.

• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Imagery
• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

the rhythmic flow of an activity especially marching or dancing 

• cadence
• imbue
• indispose
• mandarin

Two line stanza that rhymes.

• Rhyme Scheme
• Couplet
• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance 

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.7.5