EOC LITERARY TERMS SET 1

a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect

• anecdote

• rhetorical question

• antithesis

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

a very short story that is usually interesting or amusing, and concerns real people and real incidents. These are often humorous, but also have a deeper truth.

• antithesis

• anthropomorphism

• alliteration

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

narrative where characters, images, and/or events act as symbols

• allegory

• anecdote

• anthropomorphism

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political signifiance

• alliteration

• allegory

• allusion

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

a type of personification that gives human characteristics to non-humans or objects especially animals.

• anecdote

• allusion

• antithesis

• anthropomorphism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it

• analogy

• anastrophe

• anthropomorphism

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a number of words in a series having the same first consonant sound

• allusion

• alliteration

• anthropomorphism

• allegory

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

the order of the noun and the adjective in the sentence is exchanged

• alliteration

• amplificaiton

• anastorphe

• anagram

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

form of word play in which letters of a word or phrase are rearranged in such a way that a new word or phrase is formed

• anastrophe

• alliteration

• analogy

• anagram

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

extending a sentence or phrase in order to further elaborate, emphasize, or exaggerate certain points of a definition, description, or argument

• anagram

• amplification

• analogy

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D