Literary terms review

Define hyperbole.

• An overused phrase

• Its raining cats and dogs

• An over (excessive) exaggeration

• A comparison of two unlike things, using like or as

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Mood refers to...

• The definition of words used in a text

• The choices an author makes in a text

• Relating to a text

• The emotions created (in the reader) by the author's choice of words

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is the "tone" of a story?

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader
• The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject
• The time and place of the story
• The summary of events in the story

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman object or animals is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The literary term "diction" refers to

• the dictionary definition of a word

• the way we speak

• an author's choice of words

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is personification?

• Giving human qualities to a a living thing

• Giving non-living qualities to living things

• Comparing something to a non-living thing.

• Giving human qualities to non-living things

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a simile? 

• Comparing two unlike things without  using  like and as
• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two unlike things using  like and as
• None of the above

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The sky misses the sun at night

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I've told you a million times to clean your room!

• Alliteration

• Personification

• metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A