Literary Terms

Giving human characteristics to an inanimate object

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

• point of view

First Person   - the narrator is inside the story. Uses I and me predominantly.

Third Person - the narrator is outside the story. Uses he, she, they, etc.

• author's purpose

• mood

• point of view

• metaphor

A poem with no set rhyme, rhythm, or meter. No structure.

• stanza

• author's purpose

• rhyme scheme

• free verse

Appealing to the reader’s five senses (things we can see, hear, feel, smell, taste)

• mood

• imagery

• simile

• personification

Using “like” or “as” to compare two things

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

• personification

A pattern of rhyming

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Group of words starting with same consonant

• rhyme

• free verse

• stanza

• alliteration

A word that imitates a sound

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personification

• mood

A formal division of lines in a poem, like a paragraph

• free verse

• mood

• stanza

• alliteration

How the writing makes the reader feel.

• mood

• author's purpose

• stanza

• metaphor