Literary Terms 3

To give an inanimate object human(person) qualities

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• simile

When almost all the words in a sentence start with the same sound.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

The reason an author writes a passage (to inform, to persuade, to entertain)

• author's choice

• author's perspective

• author's purpose

• author's name

words that are similar in meaning

• antonyms

• alliteration

• simile

• synonyms

words that have opposite meanings

• antonyms

• alliteration

• assonance

• aquarium

the basic part of a word that gives a word it's meaning

• root word

• main word

• prefix

• suffix

a word part added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning

• prepositon

• prefix

• prepared

• root word

a word added to the end of a word the change its meaning

• sufficient

• supreme

• suffix

• prefix

The person telling/writing the story

• narrator

• media personality

• story inventor

• third person

When a story is told from a character's perspective

• third person

  point of view

• second person

  point of view

• first person

  point of view

• anonymous