Lit terms list 3

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Autobiography

• Alliteration

A writer's account of his or her own life

• Alliteration

• Autobiography

a true account of his or her own life

• Autobiography

• Biography

Given human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• Metaphor

• Personification

expresses the writer's attitude toward his or her subject

• Tone

• Simile

a comparison of two things without using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

a comparison of two things using like or as in a the sentence

• metaphor

• simile

the use of words whose sounds echo their meanings

• Simile

• Onomatapoeia

words are used in imaginative ways to express ideas that are not literally true

• Figurative Language

• Hyperbole

a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect

• Hyberbole

• Figurative language