grade 8 review

"She cried her eyes out"

• Metonomy

• Hyperbole

• Synecdoche

"We were all packed in the room like sardines"

• Comparison

• Paradox

• Metaphor

" The moon climbed the skies silently"

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Personification

"..buckets of big blue berries."

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Synecdoche

"Happy sadness"

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Oxymoron

We acted like monkeys when we won the lottery.

• Personification

• Antagonists

• Simile

• Metaphor

The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.

• Symbolism

• Foreshadowing

• Dramatic Irony

• Euphemism

When the author shows/tells the audience what the personality of the character is.

• Characterization

• Personification

• Idiom

• Allusion

A reference within a work to something famous outside it, such as a well-known person, place, event, story, or work of art, literature, music, pop culture.

• Mood

• Theme

• Personification

• Allusion

The climate of feeling in a literary work; a feeling that a literary work conveys to readers revealed through diction, setting, and character actions.

• Mood

• Conflict

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile