Author's Craft

Alliteration

• repeated sound

• previous event

• exaggeration

• idea

Onomatopoeia

• human qualities

• words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects

• the author attitude/feeling towards a topic

• the emotional state of the reader

Rhyme

• senses

• idea

• ending with similar sounds

• language specific

Dialect

• Don't use like/as/then

• going back in time to a previous event

• language specific

• senses

Simile

• when you compare 2 nouns

• has human equalites

• using words to give meanings that's the opposite of the meaning

• represents an idea

Metaphor

• language specific

• has human qualities

• the emotional state of the reader

• You don't use like/as/then

Personification

• going back in time to a previous evemt

• when an inimate object has human qualities 

• exaggeration to make a point 

• ending with similar sounds

Hyperbole

• exaggeration to make a point

• when you compare 2 nouns

• the emotional state of the reader

• an idea

Foreshadow

• senses

• a warning or or indication for a future event

• author's attitude/ feelings towards a topic

• the emotional state of the reader

Flashback

• has human qualities

• ending with similar sounds

• the emotional state of the reader

• going back in time to a previous event