Lit. Terms

Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore.

• Anaphora

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Chiasmas

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• Alliteration

• Chiasmas

• Metaphor

• Allusion

What type of alliteration is this?

Easy peasy lemon squeezy

• Consonance

• Assonance

What type of alliteration is this?

Peter Piper picked pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

• Consonance

• Assonance

An indirect or passing reference

• Simile

• Authorial Intrusion

• Pleonasm

• Allusion

You're acting like such a Scrooge!

• Chiasmas

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Authorial Intrusion

That's as useful as rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Irony

• Analogy

A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Paradox

• Simile

You look as cute as a bumblebee

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Conceit

Comparing 2 things using like or as.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Authorial intrusion

• Allusion