Study Guide - Literary Terms

A tool that an author uses to help readers visualize what is happening in the story.

• Alliteration

• figurative language

• expository writing

• narrative

Words that sound like what they are. Pop! BAM! Slosh

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

A pronoun that ends-with self and -selves and refers to the subject of the sentence. If you take it out the sentence will not make sense.

• Intensive pronouns

• reflexive pronoun

• subjective pronoun

• possessive pronoun

A genre of literature including a setting that is usually real and drawn from history and may contain actual historical persons and events, but the main characters tend to be fictional

• historical fiction

• fiction

• expository

• narrative

Extreme exaggeration

• idiom

• hyperbole

• allusion

• metaphor

A comparison using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Words or phrases that are not meant to be taken literally.

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

A pronoun uses a reflexive pronoun to add emphasis to the subject of the sentence.

• reflexive pronoun

• antecedent

• intensive pronoun

• objective pronoun

The writing purpose is to explain, inform, or describe . The purpose is merely to inform-to-provide information

• narrative writing

• expository writing

• historical fiction

• persuasive writing

Giving inanimate object or animal human qualities

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom