Literary terms/devices review

What is an alliteration?

• repetition of initial consonant sounds

• the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur

• written factual account of somebody’s life

• all-knowing, third-person narrator can tell readers what any character thinks and feels

What is assonance

• Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables

• writing or speech that explains a process or presents information. In the plot of a story or drama

• figure of speech in which the words like or as are used to compare two apparently dissimilar items

What is an allusion?

• act of creating and developing a character

• use of any element of language--a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence--more than once.

• reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

What is an aside?

• short speech delivered by a character in a play in order to express his or her true thoughts and feelings

• high point of interest or suspense

• a phrase or word having different meanings than its literal meanings.

What is an antagonist?

• character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist

• a struggle between opposing forces

• main character in a literary work

What is imagery

• the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader

• sequence of events in a literary work

• time and place of the action

A device that gives human attributes to animals and objects

• Juxtaposition
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Imagery

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What poetic device is used in this picture?

• Repetition

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Simile
• Simie
• Smile
• Similie

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"I told you a million times, do not exaggerate!" is an example of

• Hyperbowl
• Hyperbole
• Hyperbully
• Hiperbolie

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4